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CSMR
2004
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Empirical Investigation of a Non-Intrusive Approach to Study Comprehension Cognitive Models
Usually software is maintained by people different from those who developed it. In this context the maintenance activities are dominated by the comprehension effort. The study of ...
Marco Torchiano
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
An Activity-Based Quality Model for Maintainability
Maintainability is a key quality attribute of successful software systems. However, its management in practice is still problematic. Currently, there is no comprehensive basis for...
Florian Deissenboeck, Stefan Wagner, Markus Pizka,...
ICSM
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Towards Employing Use-Cases and Dynamic Analysis to Comprehend Mozilla
This paper presents an approach for comprehending large software systems using views that are created by subjecting the software systems to dynamic analysis under various use-case...
Maher Salah, Spiros Mancoridis, Giuliano Antoniol,...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 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...
ESEM
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Introducing the evaluation of complexity in functional size measurement: a UML-based approach
Functional Size Measures are often used for effort estimation. However, these measures do not take into account the amount and complexity of elaboration required, concentrating in...
Luigi Lavazza, Gabriela Robiolo