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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns
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...
FASE
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Measuring and Characterizing Crosscutting in Aspect-Based Programs: Basic Metrics and Case Studies
Aspects are defined as well-modularized crosscutting concerns. Despite being a core tenet of Aspect Oriented Programming, little research has been done in characterizing and measur...
Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Sven Apel
ESE
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
"Cloning considered harmful" considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Cory Kapser, Michael W. Godfrey
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A comparative study on the re-documentation of existing software: code annotations vs. drawing editors
During software evolution, programmers spend a lot of time and effort in the comprehension of the internal code structure. Such an activity is often required because the available...
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
On the use of relevance feedback in IR-based concept location
Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
Gregory Gay, Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus, Tim Men...