Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
Traceability helps stakeholders to understand the relationships that exist between software artifacts created during a software development project. For example, the evolution of ...
Abstract The reuse of Open Source Software components available on the Internet is playing a major role in the development of Component Based Software Systems. Nevertheless, the sp...
Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
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 ...