Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
Verification and validation techniques often generate various forms of software development artifacts. Change records created from verification and validation efforts show how fil...
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...
The conceptual structure of existing software systems is often implicit or non-existing in the source code. We prolightweight abstraction of intentional source-code views as a mea...