—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
Abstract—Object-oriented (OO) software is usually organized into subsystems using the concepts of package or module. Such modular structure helps applications to evolve when faci...
—Current malware is often transmitted in packed or encrypted form to prevent examination by anti-virus software. To analyze new malware, researchers typically resort to dynamic c...
Kevin Coogan, Saumya K. Debray, Tasneem Kaochar, G...
—During the evolution of a software system, a large amount of information, which is not always directly related to the source code, is produced. Several researchers have provided...
Alberto Bacchelli, Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, ...
—Object-oriented software quality models usually use metrics of classes and of relationships among classes to assess the quality of systems. However, software quality does not de...