Impact analysis -- determining the potential effects of changes on a software system -- plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance, regression testi...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James La...
Difficulties understanding update paths while understanding code cause developers to waste time and insert bugs. A detailed investigation of these difficulties suggests that a wid...
In this paper, we discuss several facets of optimization in cloud computing, the corresponding challenges and propose an architecture for addressing those challenges. We consider ...
Marin Litoiu, C. Murray Woodside, Johnny Wong, Joa...
The interplay of multiple objects in object-oriented programming often follows specific protocols, for example certain orders of method calls and/or control structure constraints...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, J...
Software maintenance tasks typically involve an important amount of program investigation effort on the part of software developers. To what extent can we benefit from prior prog...