Context: There is little empirical knowledge of the effectiveness of the object-oriented paradigm. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature describing empirica...
John Bailey, David Budgen, Mark Turner, Barbara Ki...
In the context of software maintenance, legacy software systems are continuously re-engineered in order to correct errors, provide new functionality, or port them into modern plat...
Although traditional software metrics have widely been applied to practical software projects, they have insufficient abilities to measure a large-scale system’s complexity at h...
Yutao Ma, Keqing He, Dehui Du, Jing Liu, Yulan Yan
This paper presents an approach to build and visualize traceability links and properties of a set of OO software releases. The process recovers an "as is" design from C+...
Giuliano Antoniol, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Luci...
Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...