Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
Program call graph representation can be used to support many tasks in compiler optimization, program comprehension, and software maintenance. During software evolution, the call ...
Assessing software quality and understanding how events in its evolution have lead to anomalies are two important steps toward reducing costs in software maintenance. Unfortunatel...
Guillaume Langelier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Pierre Po...
Regression testing, which plays an important role in software maintenance, usually relies on test adequacy criteria to select and prioritize test cases. However, with the wide use...
Shan-Shan Hou, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie, Hong Mei, Jiasu ...