: Traceability of various artifacts created during the development of software systems plays an important role in software evolution. Subsequent changes to artifacts must be traced...
Decomposing a software system into smaller, more manageable clusters is a common approach to support the comprehension of large systems. In recent years, researchers have focused ...
Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, Yih-Farn Che...
The source code of a software system is in constant change. The impact of these changes spreads out across the software system and may lead to the sudden manifestation of failures...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...