: Developing and maintaining large software systems can require the usage of a variety of different automatic test tools. The complexity of the tools leads to considerable overhead...
As the useful life expectancy of software continues to increase, the task of maintaining the source code has become the dominant phase of the software life-cycle. In order to impr...
Jason W. A. Selby, Fraser P. Ruffell, Mark Giesbre...
To facilitate software maintenance and evolution, a helpful step is to locate features concerned in a particular maintenance task. In the literature, both dynamic and interactive ...
Wei Zhao, Lu Zhang, Yin Liu, Jiasu Sun, Fuqing Yan...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...
We present Binary Refactoring: a software engineering technique for improving the implementation of programs without modifying their source code. While related to regular refactor...