To reduce the manual effort of assessing potential affected program parts during software evolution, we develop a tool, called Celadon, which automates the change impact analysis ...
The use of modern programming paradigms and technologies, such as object orientation, inheritance, polymorphism and aspect orientation, facilitate a number of important software e...
Michael Desmond, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Chris Ex...
Even when working on a well-modularized software system, programmers tend to spend more time navigating the code than working with it. This phenomenon arises because it is impossi...
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
"Anything that one cannot measure cannot be controlled." Software metrics provide insight into the quality of software, informing the developers about the status of a pr...