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WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic Static Unpacking of Malware Binaries
—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...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Tracking Design Smells: Lessons from a Study of God Classes
—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
Stéphane Vaucher, Foutse Khomh, Naouel Moha...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Relationship Between Change Coupling and Software Defects
Abstract—Change coupling is the implicit relationship between two or more software artifacts that have been observed to frequently change together during the evolution of a softw...
Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, Romain Robbes
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Logical Modularity of Programs
Abstract—The principles and best practices of object oriented design require that modules in a program should match logical decomposition of the knowledge that the program implem...
Daniel Ratiu, Radu Marinescu, Jan Jürjens
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic Package Coupling and Cycle Minimization
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...
Hani Abdeen, Stéphane Ducasse, Houari A. Sa...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level
—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...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...
Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaë...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
NTrace: Function Boundary Tracing for Windows on IA-32
—For a long time, dynamic tracing has been an enabling technique for reverse engineering tools. Tracing can not only be used to record the control flow of a particular component...
Johannes Passing, Alexander Schmidt, Martin von L&...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Omar Alam, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Who are Source Code Contributors and How do they Change?
—Determining who are the copyright owners of a software system is important as they are the individuals and organizations that license the software to its users, and ultimately t...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán