—Automatic and advanced merging algorithms help programmers to merge their modifications in main development repositories. However, there is little support to help release maste...
Code smells are characteristics of software that indicate that code may have a design problem. Code smells have been proposed as a way for programmers to recognize the need for re...
Work processes in team based software development need to be structured to minimise and resolve conflicting or divergent work. Current software development methodologies propose wa...
Abstract. Integrated development environments have been designed and engineered to display structural information about the source code of large systems. When a development task li...
Gail C. Murphy, Mik Kersten, Martin P. Robillard, ...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...