Comprehension is a key activity that underpins a variety of software maintenance and engineering tasks. The task of understanding object-oriented systems is hampered by the fact t...
We present a new automated software acceptance tests framework. The framework is novel in supporting the entire lifecycle and all QA activities, including test maintenance over mu...
David Talby, Ori Nakar, Noam Shmueli, Eli Margolin...
As a software system evolves, programmers make changes that sometimes cause problems. We analyze CVS archives for fix-inducing changes—changes that lead to problems, indicated ...
Jacek Sliwerski, Thomas Zimmermann, Andreas Zeller
Processor obsolescence is a serious maintenance problem for long-lived embedded control systems. A practical solution is to interpose an emulator program between the ‘legacy’ s...
Maintenance is undoubtedly the most effort-consuming activity in software production whereby the entropy of legacy systems (e.g., due to redundancies, poor modularity and lack of ...
Houari A. Sahraoui, Petko Valtchev, Idrissa Konkob...