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ISESE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A comparative study on the re-documentation of existing software: code annotations vs. drawing editors
During software evolution, programmers spend a lot of time and effort in the comprehension of the internal code structure. Such an activity is often required because the available...
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Visualizing Historical Data Using Spectrographs
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Tracking Design Smells: Lessons from a Study of God Classes
—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
Stéphane Vaucher, Foutse Khomh, Naouel Moha...
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The evolution of FreeBSD and Linux
Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
Clemente Izurieta, James M. Bieman
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A goal question metric based approach for efficient measurement framework definition
In software engineering, measurements can be used to monitor, understand and improve software processes as well as products and resource utilization. Commonly, measurement framewo...
Patrik Berander, Per Jönsson