Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder
code comprehension, and possibly increase changeand fault-proneness. While most of the …

Researchers in software engineering have attempted to improve software development by
mining and analyzing software repositories. Since the majority of the software engineering …

Context Coupling relations reflect the dependencies between software entities and can be
used to assess the quality of a program. For this reason, a vast amount of them has been …

To keep pace with the increasing demand for custom-tailored software systems, companies
often apply a practice called clone-and-own, whereby a new variant of a software system is …

Software maintenance starts as soon as the first artifacts are delivered and is essential for
the success of the software. However, kee** maintenance activities and their related …

This paper is intended to review a number of variancebased methods used in Sensitivity
Analysis (SA) to ascertain how much a model (numerical or otherwise) depends on each or …

Fast changing hardware and software technologies in addition to larger and more
specialized customer bases demand software tailored to meet very diverse requirements …

When searching code, developers may express additional constraints (eg, functional
constraints and nonfunctional constraints) on the implementations of desired functionalities …

Context Mining software repositories has emerged as a research direction over the past
decade, achieving substantial success in both research and practice to support various …

Tracing requirements to their implementation is crucial to all stakeholders of a software
development process. When managing software variability, requirements are typically …