We apply data mining to version histories in order to guide programmers along related changes: "Programmers who changed these functions also changed...." Given a set of e...
Understanding function signature change properties and evolution patterns is important for researchers concerned with alleviating signature change impacts, understanding software ...
Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...
With today's ever increasing demands on software, developers must produce software that can be changed without the risk of degrading the software architecture. Degraded softw...
—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...