Abstract. Software vendors are increasingly concerned about mitigating the security risk of their software. Code quality improvement is a traditional approach to mitigate security ...
Abstract Design patterns are micro architectures, high-level building blocks which describe the solutions to speci c problems in software design. These solutions have generally bee...
Maintainability is a key quality attribute of successful software systems. However, its management in practice is still problematic. Currently, there is no comprehensive basis for...
Florian Deissenboeck, Stefan Wagner, Markus Pizka,...
Legacy software systems often suffer from code quality problems. Maintenance of legacy systems can therefore be costly, and the value of legacy systems may diminish due to a lack ...
—The evolution of a software project is a rich data source for analyzing and improving the software development process. Recently, several research groups have tried to cluster s...