Code clones are generally considered to be an obstacle to software maintenance. Research has provided evidence that it may not always be practical, feasible, or cost-effective to ...
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
Because of software’s increasing dynamism and the heterogeneity of execution environments, the results of in-house testing and maintenance are often not representative of the wa...
Software processes are critical assets of software development organizations. The knowledge about context in which a process is defined and tailored is typically lost during softw...
The presence of traceability links between software artefacts is very important to achieve high comprehensibility and maintainability. This is confirmed by several researches and ...
Andrea De Lucia, Rocco Oliveto, Francesco Zurolo, ...