Identifiers represent an important source of information for programmers understanding and maintaining a system. Self-documenting identifiers reduce the time and effort necessa...
Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
The design and implementation of complex software systems ly spans multiple levels of abstractions. The concepts of el of abstractions and their interplay are represented by forma...
This paper describes an architecture analysis tool-set supporting the evolutionary improvement of the software architecture of an existing medical imaging system. The toolset has ...
It is common, especially in large software systems, for developers to change code without updating its associated comments due to their unfamiliarity with the code or due to time ...