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WCRE
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2005
IEEE
Software decay is a phenomenon that plagues aging software systems. While in recent years, there has been significant progress in the area of automatic detection of “code smells...
MSR
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
2006
ACM
Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
FASE
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
2006
Springer
In this research, we investigate the role of common coupling in evolving software systems. It can be argued that most software developers understand that the use of global data has...
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FASE
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2007
Springer
The analysis of the evolution of software systems is a useful source of information for a variety of activities, such as reverse engineering, maintenance, and predicting the future...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
As part of the evolution of software systems, effort is often invested to discover in what parts of the source code a feature (or other concern) is implemented. Unfortunately, kn...