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PEPM
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Duplicated code is a well known problem in software maintenance and refactoring. Code clones tend to increase program size and several studies have shown that duplicated code make...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...
ASWEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper we study the evolution of seven sizable open...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortu...
SOMET
2007
14 years 10 months ago
2007
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be reduced by automatically improving the design of object-oriented programs without altering their behaviour. We have const...