Producing large software systems is an extremely challenging engineering task. The main reason is the difficulty of managing the enormous amounts of code and the great numbers of ...
In this research, we investigate the role of common coupling in evolving software systems. It can be argued that most software developers understand that the use of global data has...
A key problem in software engineering is changing the code. We present a sequence of visualizations and visual metaphors designed to help engineers understand and manage the softw...
Stephen G. Eick, Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, Aud...
Software products are often released with missing functionality, errors, or incompatibilities that may result in failures, inferior performances, or user dissatisfaction. In previ...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Mary Jea...
—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...