As part of a long term project aiming at empowering software maintainers with knowledge based tools we conducted an empirical study on the knowledge they use when doing maintenanc...
Maria Fernanda N. Ramal, Ricardo de Moura Meneses,...
The extraction of reusable software components from existing systems is an attractive idea. The goal of the work in this paper is not to extract a component automatically, but to ...
—This paper describes the results of an investigation into a set of metrics for object-oriented design, called the MOOD metrics. The merits of each of the six MOOD metrics is dis...
Richard H. Carver, Steve Counsell, Reuben V. Nithi
We perform knowledge discovery in software archives in order to detect refactorings on the level of classes and methods. Our REFVIS prototype finds these refactorings in CVS repo...
—Social network methods are frequently used to analyze networks derived from Open Source Project communication and collaboration data. Such studies typically discover patterns in...
Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu,...