Software engineering has been striving for years to improve the practice of software development and maintenance. Documentation has long been prominent on the list of recommended ...
Sergio Cozzetti B. de Souza, Nicolas Anquetil, K&a...
a Abstract— Source code copying for reuse (code cloning) is often observed in software implementations. Such code cloning causes difficulty when software functionalities are mod...
When a software system critical for an organization exhibits a problem during its operation, it is relevant to fix it in a short period of time, to avoid serious economical losse...
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Sara ...
In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...
A long-standing goal of software engineering is to construct software that is easily modified and extended. Recent advances in software design techniques, such as aspect-oriented ...