—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
Programs can be composed from features. We want to verify automatically that all legal combinations of features can be composed safely without errors. Prior work on this problem a...
The output of a disassembler is used for many different purposes (e.g., debugging and reverse engineering). Therefore, disassemblers represent the first link of a long chain of s...
Roberto Paleari, Lorenzo Martignoni, Giampaolo Fre...
Code smells are characteristics of software that indicate that code may have a design problem. Code smells have been proposed as a way for programmers to recognize the need for re...
erse approaches at all levels of abstraction starting from the physical level up to the system level. Experience shows that a highlevel method may have a larger impact since the de...