While often defined in informal ways, software cohesion reflects important properties of modules in a software system. Cohesion measurement has been used for quality assessment, f...
Abstract. Software clustering techniques are useful for extracting architectural information about a system directly from its source code structure. This paper starts by examining ...
Modern programs frequently employ sophisticated modular designs. As a result, performance problems cannot be identified from costs attributed to routines in isolation; understand...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Michael...
—Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect t...
Reid Holmes, Tristan Ratchford, Martin P. Robillar...
Merging and splitting source code artifacts is a common activity during the lifespan of a software system; as developers rethink the essential structure of a system or plan for a ...