Reverse engineering is the process of uncovering the design and the design rationale from a functioning software system. Reverse engineering is an integral part of any successful ...
Software repositories are rich sources of information about the software development process. Mining the information stored in them has been shown to provide interesting insights ...
Software product lines - families of similar but not identical software products - need to address the issue of feature variability. That is, a single feature might require various...
Software product lines aim to create highly configurable programs from a set of features. Common belief and recent studies suggest that aspects are well-suited for implementing f...
Generally, code clones are regarded as one of the factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a set of source code fragments identical or similar to ea...