Abstract Data mining algorithms have been recently applied to software repositories to help on the maintenance of evolving software systems. In the past, information about what cla...
Lile Hattori, Gilson Pereira dos Santos Jr., Ferna...
Versioned and bug-tracked software systems provide a huge amount of historical data regarding source code changes and issues management. In this paper we deal with impact analysis...
Change impact analysis aims at identifying software artifacts being affected by a change. In the past, this problem has been addressed by approaches relying on static, dynamic, a...
Michele Ceccarelli, Luigi Cerulo, Gerardo Canfora,...
—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...
The need for automated software engineering tools and techniques continues to grow as the size and complexity of studied systems and analysis techniques increase. Software enginee...