To improve the ability of predicting the impact scope of a given change, we present two approaches applicable to the maintenance of object-oriented software systems. Our first ap...
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
Scientists today conduct new research via software-based experimentation and validation in a host of disciplines, including materials science, life sciences, astronomy, and physic...
David Woollard, Chris Mattmann, Daniel Popescu, Ne...
Abstract. Software maintainers routinely have to deal with a multitude of artifacts, like source code or documents, which often end up disconnected, due to their different represen...
Program and system comprehension are vital parts of the software maintenance process. We discuss the need for both perspectives and describe two methods that may be integrated to ...
Christos Tjortjis, Nicolas Gold, Paul J. Layzell, ...