We present Binary Refactoring: a software engineering technique for improving the implementation of programs without modifying their source code. While related to regular refactor...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
The frequent changes during the development and usage of large software systems often lead to a loss of architectural quality which hampers the implementation of further changes a...
Professional software developers use version control systems to coordinate their work, and to provide an unwindable history of their project’s evolution. In contrast, students i...