It is widely accepted that the OO paradigm will signi cantly increase software reusability, extendibility, interoperability, and reliability. This is also true for high assurance ...
David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia, Yasufumi Toyoshima, C...
Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
The metrics formulated to date for characterizing the modularization quality of object-oriented software have considered module and class to be synonymous concepts. But, a typical ...
Santonu Sarkar, Avinash C. Kak, Girish Maskeri Ram...
The research presented here addresses the problem of change impact analysis CIA for object-oriented software. A major problem for developers in an evolutionary environment is th...
Michelle Lee, A. Jefferson Offutt, Roger T. Alexan...
An estimation of change-proneness of parts of a software system is an active topic in the area of software engineering. Such estimates can be used to predict changes to different c...