Software maintenance tasks typically involve an important amount of program investigation effort on the part of software developers. To what extent can we benefit from prior prog...
—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...
Repositories play a pivotal role in an integrated reuse- based application development environment. Reusing software components implies their persistent storage and maintenance, a...
Panos Constantopoulos, Martin Doerr, Yannis Vassil...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promotes the utilization of available services to develop completely new applications in a context which has not been foreseen as these services...
Model driven development suggests to make models the main artifact in software development. To get executable models in most cases code generation to a "traditional" prog...
Manuel Bork, Leif Geiger, Christian Schneider, Alb...