Abstract. Software maintenance is the most expensive activity in software development. Many software companies spent a large amount of cost to maintain the existing software system...
The task of mappingbetween source programs and machine code, once the code has been optimizedand transformed by a compiler is often di cult. Yet there are many instances, such as ...
One of the main promises of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is to promote improved modularization of crosscutting concerns, thereby enhancing the software stability in the prese...
Testing and code editing are interleaved activities during program development. When tests fail unexpectedly, the changes that caused the failure(s) are not always easy to find. W...
Legacy software systems often suffer from code quality problems. Maintenance of legacy systems can therefore be costly, and the value of legacy systems may diminish due to a lack ...