Combining third party software components to customer-individual application systems requires first, standardized specification techniques for describing the technical as well as ...
This paper is a summary of the author’s thesis that presents a model and an environment for recovering the high level design of legacy software systems based on user defined ar...
This paper proposes an approach and a process to recover traceability links between source code and free text documents in software system developed with extensive use of COTS, mi...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Sara Gradara, Giuliano Anto...
Code clones are generally considered harmful in software development, and the predominant approach is to try to eliminate them through refactoring. However, recent research has pr...
As software systems continue to grow and evolve, locating code for maintenance and reuse tasks becomes increasingly difficult. Existing static code search techniques using natura...