Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
Abstract. The real-time process algebra (RTPA) is a set of new mathematical notations for formally describing system architectures, and static and dynamic behaviors. It is recogniz...
—Process studies and improvement efforts typically call for new instrumentation on the process in order to collect the data they have deemed necessary. This can be intrusive and ...
Jonathan E. Cook, Lawrence G. Votta, Alexander L. ...
The field of program comprehension is characterized by both the continuing development of new tools and techniques and the adaptation of existing techniques to address program co...
Massimiliano Di Penta, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Eilee...
Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...