Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Identifying code implementing a crosscutting concern (CCC) automatically can benefit the maintainability and evolvability of the application. Although many approaches have been p...
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 ...
The principle of separation of concerns has long been used by software engineers to manage the complexity of software system development. Programming languages help software engin...
Robert J. Walker, Elisa L. A. Baniassad, Gail C. M...
: One of the consequences of evolution can be the inability to access objects created using the older schema definition under the new definition and vice versa. Instance adaptation...