Much of software engineering is targeted towards identifying and removing existing defects while preventing the injection of new ones. Defect management is therefore one important ...
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
Data management lies at the core of most modern information technology deployments. Accordingly, the reliability of the database management system (DBMS) is critical to the reputa...
C. A. Taylor, Mechelle Gittens, Andriy V. Miransky...
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...
Diagram-based UML notation is limited in its expressiveness thus producing a model that would be severely underspecified. The flaws in the limitation of the UML diagrams are solve...
Luis Reynoso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini, M. E...