Traceability links among different software engineering artifacts make explicit how a software system was implemented to accommodate its requirements. For secure and dependable so...
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written in C, recompilatio...
Rahmat Adnan, Bas Graaf, Arie van Deursen, Joost Z...
The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortu...
Bram Adams, Herman Tromp, Kris De Schutter, Wolfga...
Recent research showed that the majority of compatibility-breaking changes in a component-based, object-oriented software system are refactorings [5]. The software updating proces...