Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...
Abstract. Non-functional requirements (NFRs) of software systems are an important source of uncertainty in effort estimation. Furthermore, quantitatively approaching NFR early in a...
Mohamad Kassab, Olga Ormandjieva, Maya Daneva, Ala...
Abstract--In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are e...
Ewan D. Tempero, Craig Anslow, Jens Dietrich, Ted ...
A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on–going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not struct...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
In the context of open source development or software evolution, developers are often faced with test suites which have been developed with no apparent rationale and which may nee...