ArgoUML uses both CVS and Bugzilla to keep track of bugfixing activities since 1998. A common practice is to reference source code changes resolving a bug stored in Bugzilla by i...
The mining of textual artifacts is requisite for many important activities in software engineering: tracing of requirements; retrieval of components from a repository; location of...
Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Senthil Karthik...
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...
Impact analysis is a specialized process of program comprehension that investigates the nature and extent of a planned software change. Traditionally, impact analysis inspects dep...
In this paper, we present an approach that examines the evolution of code stored in source control repositories. The technique identifies Change Clusters, which can help managers...
Jay Kothari, Ali Shokoufandeh, Spiros Mancoridis, ...