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KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Software systems have become more complex, with myriad features and multiple functionalities. A major challenge in developing and maintaining such complex software is to identify ...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
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WCRE
1995
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
1995
IEEE
A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
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WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
2008
ACM
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their...