A common and difficult maintenance activity is the integration of existing software components or tools into a consistent and interoperable whole. One area in which this has prove...
Code obfuscation makes it harder for a security analyst to understand the malicious payload of a program. In most cases an analyst needs to study the program at the machine code l...
Gaining an overview of the concepts represented in large programs is very demanding as multiple dimensions of knowledge appear at different abstraction levels throughout the sourc...
Program componentization has been proved to be an effective way to increase the speed and cost-effectiveness of reusing, maintaining, and understanding existing software systems. ...
Copy-paste programming is dangerous as it may lead to hidden dependencies between different parts of the system. Modifying clones is not always straight forward, because we might ...