Before performing drastic changes to a project, it is worthwhile to thoroughly explore the available options within the current structure of a project. An alternative to drastic c...
Tim Menzies, Steve Williams, Barry W. Boehm, Jairu...
— Requirements changes during software development pose a risk to cost, schedule and quality while at the same time providing an opportunity to add value. Provision of a generic ...
In software evolution analysis, many approaches analyze release history data available through versioning systems. The recent investigations of CVS data have shown that commonly c...
Abstract—Change prediction helps developers by recommending program entities that will have to be changed alongside the entities currently being changed. To evaluate their accura...
During software maintenance tasks, developers often spend an important amount of effort investigating source code. This effort can be reduced if tools are available to help develo...