Software frameworks and libraries are indispensable to today’s software systems. As they evolve, it is often timeconsuming for developers to keep their code up-to-date, so appro...
The presence of vulnerable statements in the source code is a crucial problem for maintainers: properly monitoring and, if necessary, removing them is highly desirable to ensure h...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Luigi Cerulo, Lerina Aversa...
A great deal of work on software maintenance focuses on source code analysis and manipulation. Code is viewed as a static entity that is – more or less – separated from the sy...
—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...
Design patterns are applied in software development to decouple individual concerns, so that a change in a design decision is isolated to one location of the code base. However, m...