Understanding the structure of large existing (and evolving) software systems is a major challenge for software engineers. In reverse engineering, we aim to compute, for a given s...
—Architecture-based software reliability analysis methods shall help software architects to identify critical software components and to quantify their influence on the system r...
According to the software engineering perspective, grammars can be viewed as "Specifications for defining languages or compilers". They form the basics of languages and ...
Versioned and bug-tracked software systems provide a huge amount of historical data regarding source code changes and issues management. In this paper we deal with impact analysis...
Global software development is rapidly becoming the norm for technology companies. Previous qualitative research suggests that multi-site development may increase development cycl...
James D. Herbsleb, Audris Mockus, Thomas A. Finhol...