In large-scale software development projects, change impact analysis (CIA) plays an
important role in controlling software design evolution. Identifying and accessing the effects …

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 …

Issue reports are software artifacts that often specify the changed requirements of software
systems. As software systems evolve according to these changed requirements, issue …

Requirements traceability has long been recognized as an important quality of a well-
engineered system. Among stakeholders, traceability is often unpopular due to the unclear …

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

Recommender systems for requirements are typically built on the assumption that similar
requirements can be used as proxies to retrieve similar software. When a stakeholder …

The behavioural comparison of systems is an important concern of software engineering
research. For example, the areas of specification discovery and specification mining are …

Software repositories contain a plethora of useful information that can be used to enhance
software projects. Prior work has leveraged repository data to improve many aspects of the …

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 …

Computer-aided design (CAD) has become indispensable to increasingly collaborative
hardware design processes. Despite the long-standing and growing need for collaboration …