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ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Allowing Overlapping Boundaries in Source Code using a Search Based Approach to Concept Binding
One approach to supporting program comprehension involves binding concepts to source code. Previously proposed approaches to concept binding have enforced nonoverlapping boundarie...
Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li, Kiarash Mahda...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Using Sex Differences to Link Spatial Cognition and Program Comprehension
Spatial cognition and program development have both been examined using contrasting models. We suggest that sex-based differences in one’s perception of risk is the key to relat...
Maryanne Fisher, Anthony Cox, Lin Zhao
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Reverse Engineering Method Stereotypes
An approach to automatically identify the stereotypes of all the methods in an entire system is presented. A taxonomy for object-oriented class method stereotypes is given that un...
Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Ma...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On the Use of Line Co-change for Identifying Crosscutting Concern Code
Crosscutting concerns are software system features whose implementation is spread across many modules as tangled and scattered code. Identifying such code helps developers to chan...
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Teaching Evolution of Open-Source Projects in Software Engineering Courses
In the traditional software engineering courses, the students develop small programs from scratch. This does not correspond to industry practice where programmers spend most of th...
Joseph Buchta, Maksym Petrenko, Denys Poshyvanyk, ...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Guiding the Application of Design Patterns Based on UML Models
Software design patterns are documented best practice solutions that can be applied to reoccurring problems. Although well documented, there are often opportunities to apply them ...
Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche, Alexandre Sauve
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Managing Concern Interfaces
Programming languages provide various mechanisms to support information hiding. One problem with information hiding, however, is that providing a stable interface behind which to ...
Jean-Sébastien Boulanger, Martin P. Robilla...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Software Assurance During Maintenance
Software development, testing, and maintenance tools must yield assurance information in a standardized form. Developers can use this information to argue that the software is ade...
Paul E. Black
ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Extensible Meta-Model for Program Analysis
— Software maintenance tools for program analysis and refactoring rely on a meta-model capturing the relevant properties of programs. However, what is considered relevant may cha...
Dennis Strein, Rüdiger Lincke, Jonas Lundberg...