The quality of identifiers, the coding style and formatting are important aspects that influence program understandings and maintenance. This is confirmed by the presence of se...
Filippo Corbo, Concettina Del Grosso, Massimiliano...
Annotations are a means to attach additional meta data to the source code of a system. Nowadays, more and more technologies rely on the presence of such annotations in the source c...
Andy Kellens, Carlos Noguera, Kris De Schutter, Co...
Program authorship attribution—identifying a programmer based on stylistic characteristics of code—has practical implications for detecting software theft, digital forensics, a...
Nathan E. Rosenblum, Xiaojin Zhu, Barton P. Miller
This paper introduces an architectural style for enabling end-users to quickly design and deploy software systems in domains characterized by highly personalized and dynamic requi...
To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, developers often reuse existing class libraries or frameworks by invoking their APIs. Those APIs, however...