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MSR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Code siblings: Technical and legal implications of copying code between applications
Source code cloning does not happen within a single system only. It can also occur between one system and another. We use the term code sibling to refer to a code clone that evolv...
Daniel M. Germán, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ya...
EWSA
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
ArchWare: Architecting Evolvable Software
This paper gives an overview of the ArchWare European Project1 . The broad scope of ArchWare is to respond to the ever-present demand for software systems that are capable of accom...
Flávio Oquendo, Brian Warboys, Ronald Morri...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
WCRE
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Formal Approach for Reverse Engineering: A Case Study
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 ...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
11 years 8 months ago
Recovering traceability links between an API and its learning resources
—Large frameworks and libraries require extensive developer learning resources, such as documentation and mailing lists, to be useful. Maintaining these learning resources is cha...
Barthélémy Dagenais, Martin P. Robil...