More than 90% of the cost of software is due to maintenance and evolution. Understanding the evolution of large software systems is a complex problem, which requires the use of va...
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,...
Today, many software-based, reactive systems offer a multitude of functionality. One way to master the development of such a system is to model its functionality on an abstract le...
Alexander Gruler, Alexander Harhurin, Judith Hartm...
1 The empirical study described in this paper focuses on the effectiveness of maintenance processes in an environment in which a repository of potential sources of reuse exists, e....
Often, software architects impose a particular style on the software systems they design. For large software systems, they would like to ensure that the design continues to confor...