—Determining who are the copyright owners of a software system is important as they are the individuals and organizations that license the software to its users, and ultimately t...
A reverse engineering process aims at reconstructing el abstractions from source code. This paper presents a novel reverse engineering methodology for recovering stakeholder goal ...
Yijun Yu, Yiqiao Wang, John Mylopoulos, Sotirios L...
Crosscutting concerns are software system features whose implementation is spread across many modules as tangled and scattered code. Identifying such code helps developers to chan...
Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...
Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
Source code version repositories provide a treasure of information encompassing the changes introduced in the system throughout its evolution. These repositories are typically man...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. M...