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MSR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Mining evolution data of a product family
Diversification of software assets through changing requirements impose a constant challenge on the developers and maintainers of large software systems. Recent research has addr...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Jacek Ratzing...
WCRE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Source versus Object Code Extraction for Recovering Software Architecture
The architecture of many large software systems is rarely documented and if documented it is usually out of date. To support developers maintaining and evolving these systems, an ...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Zhen Ming Jiang, Richard C. Holt
ICSM
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Employing Use-Cases and Dynamic Analysis to Comprehend Mozilla
This paper presents an approach for comprehending large software systems using views that are created by subjecting the software systems to dynamic analysis under various use-case...
Maher Salah, Spiros Mancoridis, Giuliano Antoniol,...
MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Examining the evolution of code comments in PostgreSQL
It is common, especially in large software systems, for developers to change code without updating its associated comments due to their unfamiliarity with the code or due to time ...
Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan
CSMR
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Software Bugs and Evolution: A Visual Approach to Uncover Their Relationship
Versioning systems such as CVS exhibit a large potential to investigate and understand the evolution of large software systems. Bug Reporting systems such as Bugzilla help to unde...
Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza
IFL
2007
Springer
221views Formal Methods» more  IFL 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
From Contracts Towards Dependent Types: Proofs by Partial Evaluation
Abstract. The specification and resolution of non-trivial domain constraints has become a well-recognised measure for improving the stability of large software systems. In this pa...
Stephan Herhut, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Robert Bernecky,...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Cluster Analysis to Improve the Design of Component Interfaces
For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written in C, recompilatio...
Rahmat Adnan, Bas Graaf, Arie van Deursen, Joost Z...
ICECCS
2008
IEEE
3385views Hardware» more  ICECCS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Contract-Based Approach to Analyze Software Components
Component-based software development focuses on building large software systems by integrating existing software components to reduce cost, risk and time. However, behavioural and...
Abdelhafid Zitouni, Lionel Seinturier, Mahmoud Bou...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using information retrieval to support software maintenance tasks
This paper presents an approach based on Information Retrieval (IR) techniques for extracting and representing the unstructured information in large software systems such that it ...
Denys Poshyvanyk