Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Regression testing is an expensive part of the software maintenance process. Effective regression testing techniques select and order (or prioritize) test cases between successive...
The quality evaluation of open source software (OSS) products, e.g., defect estimation and prediction approaches of individual releases, gains importance with increasing OSS adopt...
Dindin Wahyudin, Alexander Schatten, Dietmar Winkl...
A software framework is a technology that enables software reuse, potentially yielding rich dividends but requiring significant longterm investment. However, a framework is not a ...
Empirical software engineering focuses on the evaluation of software engineering technologies, such as processes and tools, by comparing related sets of data. It has contributed a ...
Davide Falessi, Philippe Kruchten, Giovanni Canton...