There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
Software product line engineering is mostly about the systematic management of commonality and variability between product line members. The effectiveness of this approach thus ve...
Software clones are identical or similar pieces of code. They are often the result of copy–and–paste activities as ad-hoc code reuse by programmers. Software clones research i...
Katsuro Inoue, Stanislaw Jarzabek, James R. Cordy,...
Program and system comprehension are vital parts of the software maintenance process. We discuss the need for both perspectives and describe two methods that may be integrated to ...
Christos Tjortjis, Nicolas Gold, Paul J. Layzell, ...
Many languages for software architectures have been proposed, each dealing with different stakeholder concerns, operating at different levels of abstraction and with different deg...