Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...
Traits are basically mixins or interfaces but with method bodies. In languages that support traits, classes are composed out of traits. There are two main advantages with traits. ...
A long-standing goal of software engineering is to construct software that is easily modified and extended. Recent advances in software design techniques, such as aspect-oriented ...
In the last decades several tools and environments defined and introduced languages for querying, navigating sforming abstract syntax trees. These environments were meant to supp...
Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ettore M...
We show how hypertext-based program understanding tools eve new levels of abstraction by using inferred type information for cases where the subject software system is written in ...