One claimed benefit of deploying design patterns is facilitating maintainers to perform anticipated changes. However, it is not at all obvious that the relevant design patterns de...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) provides new modularization of software systems by encapsulating crosscutting concerns. AspectJ, an AOP language, uses abstractions such as point...
Traditional program slicing requires two parameters: a program location and a variable, or perhaps a set of variables, of interest. Stop-list slicing adds a third parameter to the...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
Project managers can use capture-recapture models to manage the inspection process by estimating the number of defects present in an artifact and determining whether a reinspectio...