Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
When a new technology is introduced, the migration of existing applications to the new technology must be carefully considered. Automation can make some migrations feasible that o...
Our goal is to use the vast repositories of available open source code to generate specific functions or classes that meet a user’s specifications. The key words here are spec...
Programmers often want to transform the source or binary representations of their programs (e.g., to optimize, add dynamic safety checks, or add profile gathering code). Unfortun...
Transformational design is aformal technique directed at design correctness. It integrates design and veriJication by the use of pre-proven behaviour preserving transformations as...