Abstract. One of the costs of reusing software components is updating applications to use the new version of the components. Updating an application can be error-prone, tedious, an...
Danny Dig, Can Comertoglu, Darko Marinov, Ralph E....
Software developers often do not build software from scratch but reuse software libraries. In theory, the APIs of a library should be stable, but in practice they do change and th...
User-session-based testing of web applications gathers user sessions to create and continually update test suites based on real user input in the field. To support this approach ...
Sara Sprenkle, Emily Gibson, Sreedevi Sampath, Lor...
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...