KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Software has been and is still mostly refactored without tool support. Moreover, as we found in our case studies, programmers tend not to document these changes as refactorings, o...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Program checking technology is now a mature technology, but is not yet used on a large scale. We identify one cause of this gap in the decoupling of checking tools from the everyd...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has been proposed in literature to overcome modularization shortcomings such as the tyranny of the dominant decomposition. However, the new langu...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated patter...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Hierarchical diagrams are well-suited for visualizing the structure and decomposition of complex systems. However, the current tools poorly support modeling, visualization and nav...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Software systems often undergo many revisions during their lifetime as new features are added, bugs repaired, abstractions simplified and refactored, and performance improved. Wh...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Traditional techniques of traceability detection and management are not equipped to handle evolution. This is a problem for the field of software architecture, where it is critica...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Maintenance is recognised as the most difficult and expansive activity of the software development process. Numerous techniques and processes have been proposed to ease the mainte...
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
KBSE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
The widespread adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in many strategic contexts of the information technology society has drawn the attention on the issues regarding ho...