Component interoperability has become an important concern as companies migrate legacy systems, integrate COTS products, and assemble modules from disparate sources into a single ...
Abstract—During software development, design rules and contracts in the source code are often encoded through regularities, such as API usage protocols, coding idioms and naming ...
Angela Lozano, Andy Kellens, Kim Mens, Gabriela Ar...
A Feature Model (FM) is a compact representation of all the products of a software product line. The automated extraction of information from FMs is a thriving research topic invo...
Sergio Segura, Robert M. Hierons, David Benavides,...
Software engineering researchers have long been interested in where and why bugs occur in code, and in predicting where they might turn up next. Historical bug-occurence data has ...
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John ...
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...