It is difficult to fully assess the quality of software inhouse, outside the actual time and context in which it will execute after deployment. As a result, it is common for softw...
The presence of vulnerable statements in the source code is a crucial problem for maintainers: properly monitoring and, if necessary, removing them is highly desirable to ensure h...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Luigi Cerulo, Lerina Aversa...
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
There are many difficulties associated with developing correct multithreaded software, and many of the activities that are simple for single threaded software are exceptionally ha...
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...