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IWPC
1998
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
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IWPC
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2005
IEEE
Comprehension is a key activity that underpins a variety of software maintenance and engineering tasks. The task of understanding object-oriented systems is hampered by the fact t...
DKE
2007
14 years 9 months ago
2007
This paper presents a methodology for knowledge acquisition from source code. We use data mining to support semiautomated software maintenance and comprehension and provide practi...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
2007
ACM
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
ESE
2006
14 years 9 months ago
2006
Software is typically improved and modified in small increments (we refer to each of these increments as a modification record--MR). MRs are usually stored in a configuration manag...