Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Many modern software systems are often large, distributed, written in more than one programming language, and developed using pre-built components. This paper presents the results...
The development of multi-agent systems (MAS) implies considering both the social and individual levels of these systems. However, the elements in these levels are not necessarily c...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) promises to localize concerns that inherently crosscut the primary structural decomposition of a software system. Localization of concerns is cri...