Achievements and challenges in software reverse engineering Page 1 142 communications of
the acm | april 2011 | vol. 54 | no. 4 review articles the need FOR changing existing software has …

This paper explores and describes the state of the art for what concerns the model-driven
approaches proposed in the literature to support reverse engineering. We conducted a …

Many of the existing approaches in Software Comprehension focus on program structure or
external documentation. However, by analyzing formal information the informal semantics …

The presence of design flaws in a software system has a negative impact on the quality of
the software, as they indicate violations of design practices and principles, which make a …

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data provides valuable information on analysis
techniques often used to derive insight from software data. This book shares best practices …

Establishing credible thresholds is a central challenge for promoting source code metrics as
an effective instrument to control the internal quality of software systems. To address this …

Software evolution research has focused mostly on analyzing the evolution of single
software systems. However, it is rarely the case that a project exists as standalone …

The most distinctive thing about humans is not the thumb, of course. It is design. Unlike any
other animal, we incessantly and dramatically reshape both ourselves and our environment …

Developers have a lot of freedom in writing comments as well as in choosing identifiers and
method names. These are intentional in nature and provide a different relevance of …

Context: Code smells are associated to poor design and programming style, which often
degrades code quality and hampers code comprehensibility and maintainability. Goal …