Efforts for software evolution supersede any other part of the software life cycle. Technological decisions have a major impact on the maintainability, but are not well reflected ...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
: Scenario-based approaches are becoming ubiquitous in systems analysis and design but their definition and scope remain vague. Complementing the recently proposed CREWS classifica...
Klaus Weidenhaupt, Klaus Pohl, Matthias Jarke, Pet...
It is common, especially in large software systems, for developers to change code without updating its associated comments due to their unfamiliarity with the code or due to time ...
Web Services are designed for loosely coupled systems, which means that in many cases it is not possible to synchronously upgrade all peers of a Web Service scenario. Instead, Web ...