The research described in this paper is concerned with the application of information retrieval to software maintenance, and in particular to the problem of recovering traceabilit...
For software maintenance and evolution, a common problem is to understand how each requirement is implemented in the source code. The basic solution of this problem is to find the...
Developer documentation helps developers learn frameworks and libraries. To better understand how documentation in open source projects is created and maintained, we performed a q...
Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software def...
Paul Luo Li, Mary Shaw, James D. Herbsleb, Bonnie ...
A typical approach to software maintenance is analyzing just the source code, applying some patches, releasing the new version, and then updating the documentation. This quick-fix...