Program debugging is an extremely time-consuming process, and it takes up a large portion of software development time. In practice, debugging is still very much of an art, with t...
This paper presents a study on the stability of cloned code. The results from an analysis of 200 weeks of evolution of five software system show that the stability as measured by...
The maintenance and evolution of critical software with high requirements for reliability is an extremely demanding, time consuming and expensive task. Errors introduced by ad-hoc ...
Abstract. Software systems should evolve in order to respond to changing client requirements and their evolving environments. But unfortunately, the evolution of legacy application...
Simon Allier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Salah Sadou, St&...
Modern software must evolve in response to changing conditions. In the most widely used programming environments, code is static and cannot change at runtime. This poses problems ...
Scott Malabarba, Raju Pandey, Jeff Gragg, Earl T. ...