—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
The evolution of any software product over its lifetime is unavoidable, caused both by bugs to be fixed and by new requirements appearing in the later stages of the product's...
Abstract. This paper compares organization and practices for software reuse in integrationoriented software product lines and open source software projects. The main observation is...
Improvements in the software development process depend on our ability to collect and analyze data drawn from various phases of the development life cycle. Our design metrics rese...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...