To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, programmers often reuse existing libraries or frameworks by invoking methods provided in their APIs. Those...
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Many reverse-engineering tools have been developed to detract representations from source code. Yet, most of these tools completely ignore recovery of the all-important rationale ...
In order to retrieve, select and apply design patterns in a tool-supported way, we suggest to construct and document a problemcontext pattern that reflects the essence of the prob...
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...