With the success of open source software projects, such as Apache and Mozilla, comes the opportunity to study the development process. In this paper, we present StarGate: a novel ...
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Open source software projects such as Apache and Mozilla present an opportunity for information visualization. Since these projects typically require collaboration between develop...
Michael Ogawa, Kwan-Liu Ma, Christian Bird, Premku...
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
During initial program comprehension, software engineers could benefit from knowing the most need-to-beunderstood classes in the system under study in order to kick-start their s...