Studying the evolution of topics (collections of co-occurring words) in a software project is an emerging technique to automatically shed light on how the project is changing over...
Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Do...
Abstract. Code clones have long been recognized as bad smells in software systems and are considered to cause maintenance problems during evolution. It is broadly assumed that the ...
Reto Geiger, Beat Fluri, Harald Gall, Martin Pinzg...
Abstract. It is an important and intriguing issue to know the quantitative similarity of large software systems. In this paper, a similarity metric between two sets of source code ...
With the rapid growth of the Internet and pervasive computing activities, the migration of back-end legacy systems to network centric environments has become a focal point for res...
There is still no standardization of software measures and metrics extraction tools have to be updated frequently to handle the changes. A possible solution is represented by usin...
Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi, T...