Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
The paper presents a semi-automated technique for feature location in source code. The technique is based on combining information from two different sources: an execution trace, ...
Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to promote better software changeability than objectoriented (OO) techniques, there is no empiri...
Phil Greenwood, Thiago T. Bartolomei, Eduardo Figu...
One of the most important steps towards effective software maintenance of a large complicated system is to understand how program features are spread over the entire system and th...
W. Eric Wong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Joseph Robert Hor...
To reduce the effort spent on system comprehension during software maintenance, easy access to different type of information describing the system features is necessary. This is u...