Code clones are generally considered to be an obstacle to software maintenance. Research has provided evidence that it may not always be practical, feasible, or cost-effective to ...
Maintenance costs make up the bulk of the total life cycle costs of a software system. Besides organizational issues such as knowledge management and turnover, the longterm mainte...
Florian Deissenboeck, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert
: This paper presents a practitioners’ report on supporting shared understanding within distributed development teams. Our software domain focuses on Enterprise development in th...
In this paper we describe our experiences in building tools for accelerating maintenance of existing large telecommunications software. We discuss how various maintenance activitie...
The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortu...
Bram Adams, Herman Tromp, Kris De Schutter, Wolfga...