Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a well-known method to measure the functionality of a system, from the user’s point of view. Both Albrecht’s original model and a local varian...
Which components of a large software system are the most defect-prone? In a study on a large SAP Java system, we evaluated and compared a number of defect predictors, based on cod...
Tilman Holschuh, Markus Pauser, Kim Herzig, Thomas...
An approach to recover/discover traceability links between software artifacts via the examination of a software system’s version history is presented. A heuristic-based approach...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Maletic, Bonita Shari...
Attacks exploiting race conditions have been considered rare and “low risk”. However, the increasing popularity of multiprocessors has changed this situation: instead of waiti...