—With the increasing use of object-oriented methods in new software development there is a growing need to both document and improve current practice in object-oriented design an...
Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, Chris F. Kemer...
The research presented here addresses the problem of change impact analysis CIA for object-oriented software. A major problem for developers in an evolutionary environment is th...
Michelle Lee, A. Jefferson Offutt, Roger T. Alexan...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
Increasingly, applications are being built by combining existing software components. For the most part, a software developer can treat components as black-boxes. However, for som...
Andrew Chan, Reid Holmes, Gail C. Murphy, Annie T....
Program slicing has been used for efficient program debugging activities. Program slice is computed by analyzing dependence relations between program statements. We can divide dep...