In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...
Evolutionary algorithms are among the metaheuristic search methods that have been applied to the structural test data generation problem. Fitness evaluation methods play an import...
H. Turgut Uyar, A. Sima Etaner-Uyar, A. Emre Harma...
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...
Several research efforts have studied ways to infer properties of software systems from program spectra gathered from the running systems, usually with software-level instrumentat...
The paper describes results of an empirical study, where some hypotheses about the impact of reuse on defect-density and stability, and about the impact of component size on defec...
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Reidar Conradi, Ole M. Killi,...