Over the past decade, software architecture research has emerged as the principled study of the overall structure of software systems, especially the relations among subsystems an...
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
Software clones are considered harmful in software maintenance and evolution. However, despite a decade of active research, there is a marked lack of work in the detection and ana...
Abstract-- Code and design smells are poor solutions to recurring implementation and design problems. They may hinder the evolution of a system by making it hard for software engin...
Impact analysis -- determining the potential effects of changes on a software system -- plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance, regression testi...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James La...