We present a method to detect and visualize evolution patterns in C++ source code. Our method consists of three steps. First, we extract an annotated syntax tree (AST) from each v...
This paper applies Lehman's theory of software evolution to analyse the characteristics of web-based applications and identifies the essences and incidents that cause difficu...
Incremental software change adds new functionality to software. It is the foundation of software evolution, maintenance, iterative development, agile development, and other softwa...
Jonathan Buckner, Joseph Buchta, Maksym Petrenko, ...
Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...
In consequence of changing requirements and technological progress, software languages are subject to change. The changes affect the language’s specification, which in turn a...
Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Daniel Ratiu, Guido Wachs...