The C language is among the most widely used in the world, particularly for critical infrastructure software. C programs depend upon macros processed using the C preprocessor, but...
Systems software uses conditional compilation to manage crosscutting concerns in a very fine-grained and efficient way, but at the expense of tangled and scattered conditional c...
Bram Adams, Wolfgang De Meuter, Herman Tromp, Ahme...
Current software development often relies on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services, eventually running on different platforms. As a rule, however, such ...
Software often needs to be modified for accommodating requirements changes through the software life cycle. To deal with several accidental requirements changes related to softwa...
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...