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1995
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Using non-functional requirements to systematically support change
Non-Functional requirements (or quality requirements, NFRs) such as confidentiality, performance and timeliness are often crucial to a software system. Our NFRFramework treats NF...
Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric S. K. Yu
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MSR
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?
Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change hi...
Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl
MSR
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Using software birthmarks to identify similar classes and major functionalities
Software birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every software component. Two components having similar birthmarks indicate that they are similar in functionality, st...
Takeshi Kakimoto, Akito Monden, Yasutaka Kamei, Ha...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
15 years 5 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
WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 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...