Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...
Abstract: SumTime-Turbine produces textual summaries of archived timeseries data from gas turbines. These summaries should help experts understand large data sets that cannot be vi...
Jin Yu, Ehud Reiter, Jim Hunter, Somayajulu Sripad...
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...
Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
Many software systems contained cloned code, i.e., segments of code that are highly similar to each other, typically because one has been copied from the other, and then possibly m...