Maintenance activities are made more difficult when pointers are heavily used in source code: the programmer needs to build a mental model of memory locations and of the way they ...
Usually software is maintained by people different from those who developed it. In this context the maintenance activities are dominated by the comprehension effort. The study of ...
Abstract—PROGRESS is a project and strategic research centre at M¨alardalen University in Sweden that is funded for 2006– 2010 by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research...
Johan Kraft, Holger M. Kienle, Thomas Nolte, Ivica...
Although the potential impacts of virtual communities have been widely recognized in business and academia, little research has been done to provide guidelines for design of such ...
It is often claimed that inaccurate modularisation of crosscutting concerns hinders program comprehension and, as a consequence, leads to harmful software instabilities. However, ...
Eduardo Figueiredo, Bruno Carreiro da Silva, Cl&aa...