Studying the evolution of topics (collections of co-occurring words) in a software project is an emerging technique to automatically shed light on how the project is changing over...
Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Do...
The understanding of the structure of a software system can be improved by analyzing the system’s evolution during development. Visualizations of software history that provide o...
Programmers frequently use the Web while writing code: they search for libraries, code examples, tutorials, and documentation. This link between code and visited Web pages remains...
Analyzing historical information can show how a software system evolved into its current state, which parts of the system are stable and which have changed more. However, historic...
Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...