Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...
During software evolution, adaptive, and corrective maintenance are common reasons for changes. Often such changes cluster around key components. It is therefore important to anal...
James M. Bieman, Anneliese Amschler Andrews, Helen...
The notion of refactoring —transforming the sourcecode of an object-oriented program without changing its external behaviour — has been studied intensively within the last dec...
Serge Demeyer, Filip Van Rysselberghe, Tudor G&ici...
Maintaining the integrity of large-scale networks is becoming an increasingly daunting task as networks expand at an unprecedented rate. The majority of present network monitoring...
Existing spreadsheet systems allow users to change cells arbitrarily, which is a major source of spreadsheet errors. We propose a system that prevents errors in spreadsheets by re...
Martin Erwig, Robin Abraham, Irene Cooperstein, St...