Code cloning is not only assumed to inflate maintenance costs but also considered defect-prone as inconsistent changes to code duplicates can lead to unexpected behavior. Conseque...
Modifying an application usually means to stop the application, apply the changes, and start the application again. That means, the application is not available for at least a sho...
Software services are, just like any other software system, subject to permanent change. We argue that these changes should generally be transparent to service consumers. However,...
Philipp Leitner, Anton Michlmayr, Florian Rosenber...
Design by contract is a practical methodology for developing code together with its specification. The contract consists of class invariants and method preand postconditions. As ...
Maayan Goldstein, Yishai A. Feldman, Shmuel S. Tys...
Research on maintenance task structure modeling has so far examined only how often program artifacts are modified, and what information can be deduced from modification records....