Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...
Our analysis of crosscutting concerns in real-life software systems (totaling over 500,000 LOC) and in reports from literature indicated a number of properties that allow for thei...
Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...
We describe the design and implementation of FFE/x86 (File-Format Extractor for x86), an analysis tool that works on stripped executables (i.e., neither source code nor debugging ...
Research on maintenance task structure modeling has so far examined only how often program artifacts are modified, and what information can be deduced from modification records....