ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Uncovering, modelling, and understanding architectural level dependencies of software systems is a key task for software maintainers. However, current dependency analysis techniqu...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Legacy software systems often suffer from code quality problems. Maintenance of legacy systems can therefore be costly, and the value of legacy systems may diminish due to a lack ...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Maintainability is a key quality attribute of successful software systems. However, its management in practice is still problematic. Currently, there is no comprehensive basis for...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Regression testing is an expensive part of the software maintenance process. Effective regression testing techniques select and order (or prioritize) test cases between successive...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Identifiers represent an important source of information for programmers understanding and maintaining a system. Self-documenting identifiers reduce the time and effort necessa...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortu...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
An in-depth investigation of C preprocessor usage for portability and configuration management is presented. Three heavily-ported and widely used C++ libraries are examined. A cor...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Large object-oriented applications are structured over large number of packages. Packages are important but complex structural entities that may be difficult to understand since ...