Software maintenance, program analysis and transformation tools almost always rely on static source code analysis as the first and fundamental step to gather information. In the ...
Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gianluca...
When a software system enters the maintenance phase, the availability of accurate and consistent information about its organization can help alleviate the difficulties of program...
Conditioned slicing is a powerful generalisation of static and dynamic slicing which has applications to many problems in software maintenance and evolution, including re-use, ree...
Chris Fox, Mark Harman, Robert M. Hierons, Sebasti...
Source code investigation is one of the most time consuming activities during software maintenance and evolution, yet currently available tool support suffers from several shortco...
The behavior of nondeterminate systems can be hard to predict, since similar inputs at different times can generate different outputs. In other words, the behavior seen during tes...
Tim Menzies, Bojan Cukic, Harshinder Singh, John D...