Traits are basically mixins or interfaces but with method bodies. In languages that support traits, classes are composed out of traits. There are two main advantages with traits. ...
Conditioned slicing is a powerful generalisation of static and dynamic slicing which has applications to many problems in software maintenance and evolution, including re-use, ree...
Chris Fox, Mark Harman, Robert M. Hierons, Sebasti...
Source code investigation is one of the most time consuming activities during software maintenance and evolution, yet currently available tool support suffers from several shortco...
Detailed knowledge about implemented concerns in the source code is crucial for the cost-effective maintenance and successful evolution of large systems. Concern mining techniques...
Source code is the target and final outcome of software development. By focusing our research and analysis on source code only, we risk forgetting that software is the product of...