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METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Visualizing Historical Data Using Spectrographs
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt
CSMR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Structural Complexity and Decay in FLOSS Systems: An Inter-repository Study
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
Andrea Capiluppi, Karl Beecher
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Empirical evaluation of defect projection models for widely-deployed production software systems
Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software def...
Paul Luo Li, Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Bonnie ...
FASE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the Build Architecture of Legacy C/C++ Software Systems
Abstract. The build architecture of legacy C/C++ software systems, groups program files in directories to represent logical components. The interfaces of these components are loos...
Homayoun Dayani-Fard, Yijun Yu, John Mylopoulos, P...
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd