A fundamental reason for investing in product families is to minimize the application engineering costs. Several organizations that employ product families, however, are becoming i...
When working on a large software system, a programmer typically spends an inordinate amount of time sifting through thousands of artifacts to find just the subset of information n...
Which components of a large software system are the most defect-prone? In a study on a large SAP Java system, we evaluated and compared a number of defect predictors, based on cod...
Tilman Holschuh, Markus Pauser, Kim Herzig, Thomas...
Understanding and maintaining legacy COBOL systems are still a challenging task for both academic research and industry practice. With the development of aspect-oriented software ...
Jianjun Pu, Zhuopeng Zhang, Jian Kang, Yang Xu, Ho...
Certain design fragments in software architectures can have a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we introduce the concept of architectural “bad smells,”...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...