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ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Establishing Maintainability in Systems Integration: Ambiguity, Negotiations, and Infrastructure
This paper investigates how maintainability can be established in system integration (SI) projects where maintainers have no direct access to the source code of the third-party so...
Thomas Østerlie, Alf Inge Wang
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Quantifying the Effects of Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Maintenance Study
One of the main promises of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is to promote improved modularization of crosscutting concerns, thereby enhancing the software stability in the prese...
Uirá Kulesza, Cláudio Sant'Anna, Ale...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting the Analogy Between Traces and Signal Processing
The main challenge of dynamic analysis is the huge volume of data, making it difficult to extract high level views. Most techniques developed so far adopt a finegrained approach ...
Adrian Kuhn, Orla Greevy
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Properties of Signature Change Patterns
Understanding function signature change properties and evolution patterns is important for researchers concerned with alleviating signature change impacts, understanding software ...
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead Jr.
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Software Feature Understanding in an Industrial Setting
Software Engineers frequently need to locate and understand the code that implements a specific user feature of a large system. This paper reports on a study by Motorola Inc. and ...
Michael Jiang, Michael Groble, Sharon Simmons, Den...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Source-Level Linkage: Adding Semantic Information to C++ Fact-bases
Facts extracted from source code have been used to support a variety of software engineering activities, ranging from architectural understanding, through detection of design patt...
Daqing Hou, H. James Hoover
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Allowing Overlapping Boundaries in Source Code using a Search Based Approach to Concept Binding
One approach to supporting program comprehension involves binding concepts to source code. Previously proposed approaches to concept binding have enforced nonoverlapping boundarie...
Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li, Kiarash Mahda...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Sex Differences to Link Spatial Cognition and Program Comprehension
Spatial cognition and program development have both been examined using contrasting models. We suggest that sex-based differences in one’s perception of risk is the key to relat...
Maryanne Fisher, Anthony Cox, Lin Zhao
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Reverse Engineering Method Stereotypes
An approach to automatically identify the stereotypes of all the methods in an entire system is presented. A taxonomy for object-oriented class method stereotypes is given that un...
Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Ma...