Software maintenance tasks typically involve an important amount of program investigation effort on the part of software developers. To what extent can we benefit from prior prog...
Test-driven software development tackles the problem of operationally defining the features to be implemented by means of test cases. This approach was recently ported to the earl...
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchi...
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...
Bram Adams, Herman Tromp, Kris De Schutter, Wolfga...
To support commercial-strength web development it is as important to utilize a process as it is in regular, non-web information systems development. Using an established OO/CBD de...
Brendan Haire, Brian Henderson-Sellers, David Lowe
Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...