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APSEC
2001
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2001
IEEE
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...
APSEC
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Change requests are often formulated into concepts or features that a maintainer can understand. One of the main issues faced by a maintainer is to know and locate “where does t...
TSE
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Several recent studies indicate that many industrial applications exhibit poor quality in the design of exception-handling. To improve the quality of error-handling, we need to und...
KCAP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The paper reports on an exploratory case study where an organizational learning methodology was used to support knowledge sharing in a medium-sized distributed software developmen...
ESEM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
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...