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WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level
—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...
IWPC
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Crosscutting patterns and design stability: An exploratory analysis
It is often claimed that inaccurate modularisation of crosscutting concerns hinders program comprehension and, as a consequence, leads to harmful software instabilities. However, ...
Eduardo Figueiredo, Bruno Carreiro da Silva, Cl&aa...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Identifying Architectural Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey
KBSE
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Architecting for evolvability by means of traceability and features
The frequent changes during the development and usage of large software systems often lead to a loss of architectural quality which hampers the implementation of further changes a...
Robert Brcina, Matthias Riebisch
MSR
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Mining evolution data of a product family
Diversification of software assets through changing requirements impose a constant challenge on the developers and maintainers of large software systems. Recent research has addr...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Jacek Ratzing...