Test-driven development is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, test cases (preferably automated) are incrementally wri...
Laurie A. Williams, E. Michael Maximilien, Mladen ...
We present the results of a three year field study of the software development process choices made by project teams at two leading offshore vendors. In particular, we focus on th...
Aspect-oriented refactoring is a promising technique for improving modularity and reducing complexity of existing software systems through encapsulating crosscutting concerns. As ...
Reishi Yokomori, Harvey P. Siy, Norihiro Yoshida, ...
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...