Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
Software system documentation is almost always expressed informally, in natural language and free text. Examples include requirement specifications, design documents, manual pages...
Giuliano Antoniol, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Luci...
As valuable software systems get old, reverse engineering becomes more and more important to the companies that have to maintain the code. Clustering is a key activity in reverse ...
As a program evolves, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and reason about changes in the source code. Eventually, if enough changes are made, reverse engineering and ...
Several techniques have been suggested for supporting reverse engineering and design recovery activities. While many of these techniques have been cataloged in various collections...