Generally, code clones are regarded as one of the factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a set of source code fragments identical or similar to ea...
Accelerating the learning curve of software maintainers working on systems with which they have little familiarity motivated this study. A working hypothesis was that automated me...
The feature list of modern IDEs is steadily growing and mastering these tools becomes more and more demanding, especially for novice programmers. Despite their remarkable capabili...
Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, Yih-Farn Che...
Up to 75% of the costs associated with the development of software systems occur post-deployment during maintenance and evolution. Software refactoring is a process which can sign...