The new hybrid clone detection tool NICAD combines the strengths and overcomes the limitations of both textbased and AST-based clone detection techniques to yield highly accurate ...
Abstract--In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are e...
Ewan D. Tempero, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, Ted ...
In this paper we investigate factors of the testability of object-oriented software systems. The starting point is given by a study of the literature to obtain both an initial mod...
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...