KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...
SMR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This study reports results from an empirical study of 54 software maintainers in the software maintenance department of a Norwegian company. The study addresses the relationship b...
SMR
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
So-called little, or domain-specific languages (DSLs), have the potential to make software maintenance simpler: domain-experts can directly use the DSL to make required routine m...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
Although software managers are generally good at new project estimation, their experience of scheduling rework tends to be poor. Inconsistent or incorrect effort estimation can in...
ASWEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper we study the evolution of seven sizable open...
IASTEDSEA
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Code clone has been regarded as one of factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a code fragment in a source code that is identical or similar to anot...
CSMR
2006
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be greatly reduced by the automatic refactoring of object-oriented programs to increase their understandability, adaptabili...
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
In recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change pro...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...