In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
The modeling approach is not used to its full potential in maintenance of legacy systems. Often, models do not even exist. The main reasons being that the economic implications an...
Joel Huselius, Johan Andersson, Hans Hansson, Sasi...
Support for program understanding in development and maintenance tasks can be facilitated by program analysis techniques. Both control-flow and data-flow analysis can support pr...
In this paper we describe a framework for robust system maintenance that addresses specific challenges of data-centric applications. We show that for data-centric applications, cl...
Behzad Bordbar, Dirk Draheim, Matthias Horn, Ina S...
Software reuse is commonly used to leverage existing assets and to reduce development cost and time. Reuse can be accomplished by several different mechanisms. This paper describe...