One of the most important steps towards eective software maintenance of a large complicated system is to understand how program features are spread over the entire system and thei...
W. Eric Wong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Joseph Robert Hor...
Source control systems permit developers to attach a free form message to every committed change. The content of these change messages can support software maintenance activities....
The design and implementation of complex software systems ly spans multiple levels of abstractions. The concepts of el of abstractions and their interplay are represented by forma...
Code clone has been regarded as one of factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a code fragment in a source code that is identical or similar to anot...
Recently, service orientation has increasingly been debated both in research and practice. While researchers postulate a paradigm shift towards services as the basic unit of excha...