A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

Software visualization studies techniques and methods for graphically representing different
aspects of software. Its main goal is to enhance, simplify and clarify the mental …

We apply data mining to version histories in order to guide programmers along related
changes:" Programmers who changed these functions also changed...." Given a set of …

Despite software history being indispensable for developers, there is little empirical
knowledge about how they examine software history. Without such knowledge, researchers …

The field of software visualization (SV) investigates approaches and techniques for static
and dynamic graphical representations of algorithms, programs (code), and processed data …

Modern source-control systems, such as Subversion, preserve change-sets of files as atomic
commits. However, the specific ordering information in which files were changed is typically …

Software evolution analysis provides a valuable source of information that can be used both
to understand a system's design and predict its future development. While for many program …

Files, classes, or methods have frequently been investigated in recent research on co-
change. In this paper, we present a first study at the level of lines. To identify line changes …

Software is among the most complex human artifacts, and visualization is widely
acknowledged as important to understanding software. In this paper, we consider the …

Evolutionary information about software systems has proven to be a good resource to
complement existing reverse engineering approaches, because it helps in giving a historical …