As the useful life expectancy of software continues to increase, the task of maintaining the source code has become the dominant phase of the software life-cycle. In order to impr...
Jason W. A. Selby, Fraser P. Ruffell, Mark Giesbre...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Embedded application requirements, including high performance, low power consumption and fast time to market, are uncommon in the broader domain of general purpose applications. I...
models evolve at different levels of abstraction, from the requirements specification to development of the source code. The models underlying this process are related and their ...
Decomposing a software system into smaller, more manageable clusters is a common approach to support the comprehension of large systems. In recent years, researchers have focused ...