Programmers rely on programming idioms, design patterns, and workaround techniques to make up for missing programming language support. Evolving languages often address frequently ...
Peter Pirkelbauer, Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustru...
Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...
Rearchitecturing large software systems becomes more and more complex after years of development and a growing size of the code base. Nonetheless, a constant adaptation of software...
Parallelizing existing sequential programs to run efficiently on multicores is hard. The Java 5 package java.util.concurrent (j.u.c.) supports writing concurrent programs: much of...
Modern integrated development environments (IDEs) provide programmers with a variety of sophisticated tools for program visualization and manipulation. These tools assist the prog...