We provide an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring.
This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the …

Understanding the implementation of a certain feature of a system requires identification of
the computational units of the system that contribute to this feature. In many cases, the …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

Gaining an architectural level understanding of a software system is important for many
reasons. When the description of a system's architecture does not exist, attempts must be …

Mobile applications (or apps) are rapidly growing in number and variety. These apps
provide useful features, but also bring certain privacy and security risks. For example …

Fueled by an emerging underground economy, malware authors are exploiting
vulnerabilities at an alarming rate. To make matters worse, obfuscation tools are commonly …

In this paper we provide an detailed overview of existing research in the field of software
restructuring and refactoring, from a formal as well as a practical point of view. Next, we …

A software modification task often addresses several concerns. A concern is anything a
stakeholder may want to consider as a conceptual unit, including features, nonfunctional …

Many problem factors in the software development phase affect the maintainability of the
delivered software systems. Therefore, understanding software development problem …

Abstract Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has typically been applied in the field of software
engineering to support software maintenance and object-oriented class identification tasks …