Inspections can be used to identify defects in software artifacts. In this way, inspection methods help to improve software quality, especially when used early in software develop...
Guilherme Travassos, Forrest Shull, Michael Freder...
Testing is the most commonly used approach to the assurance of software quality and reliability. The testing of object-oriented software is much more complex than that of conventi...
In the context of software maintenance, legacy software systems are continuously re-engineered in order to correct errors, provide new functionality, or port them into modern plat...
Although traditional software metrics have widely been applied to practical software projects, they have insufficient abilities to measure a large-scale system’s complexity at h...
Yutao Ma, Keqing He, Dehui Du, Jing Liu, Yulan Yan
This paper presents an approach to build and visualize traceability links and properties of a set of OO software releases. The process recovers an "as is" design from C+...
Giuliano Antoniol, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Luci...