The static modifier is a convenient way to make class members "global" in object-oriented software systems. Given this, we wondered if static members significantly contr...
Most open source software development projects include an open bug repository—one to which users of the software can gain full access—that is used to report and track problems...
The MDA approach aims to ease software maintenance faced with platform and business evolution. In this approach, main development artifacts, i.e. models, are defined with the Meta...
With the advent of open source software repositories the data available for defect prediction in source files increased tremendously. Although traditional statistics turned out t...
— The paper presents an approach that combines conceptual and evolutionary techniques to support change impact analysis in source code. Information Retrieval (IR) is used to deri...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk,...