—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...
Diversification of software assets through changing requirements impose a constant challenge on the developers and maintainers of large software systems. Recent research has addr...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Jacek Ratzing...
With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
The mining of textual artifacts is requisite for many important activities in software engineering: tracing of requirements; retrieval of components from a repository; location of...
Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Senthil Karthik...
Abstract—Correcting software defects accounts for a significant amount of resources such as time, money and personnel. To be able to focus testing efforts where needed the most,...