Provenance, or records of the origin, context, custody, derivation or other historical information about a (digital) object, has recently become an important research topic in a n...
Coupling is considered by many to be an important concept in measuring design quality. There is still much to be learned about which aspects of coupling affect design quality or o...
A commonly held belief is that the friend construct in C++ is a violation of encapsulation. However, little empirical analysis of its use has taken place to provide evidence to su...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...
Software product lines promise benefits like development and maintenance effort reduction, time to market decrease, and quality improvement, all resulting from planned and systemat...
Accelerating the learning curve of software maintainers working on systems with which they have little familiarity motivated this study. A working hypothesis was that automated me...