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ICSM
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
As systems evolve, they become harder to understand because the implementation of concepts (e.g. business rules) becomes less coherent. To preserve source code comprehensibility, ...
WCRE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
Developer documentation helps developers learn frameworks and libraries. To better understand how documentation in open source projects is created and maintained, we performed a q...
MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Evolutionary annotations are descriptions of how source code evolves over time. Typical source comments, given their static nature, are usually inadequate for describing how a pro...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Many small and medium-sized systems have little or no design documentation, which makes program understanding during maintenance enormously more difficult when performed by outsi...