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 …

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 …

During the recent years, the market of mobile software applications (apps) has maintained
an impressive upward trajectory. Many small and large software development companies …

The mobile apps market is one of the fastest growing areas in the information technology. In
digging their market share, developers must pay attention to building robust and reliable …

Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate" not quite right code
which we postpone making it right". Examples of technical debt are code smells and bug …

SrcML is an XML representation for C/C++/Java source code that forms a platform for the
efficient exploration, analysis, and manipulation of large software projects. The lightweight …

Software ecosystems consist of multiple software projects, often interrelated by means of
dependency relations. When one project undergoes changes, other projects may decide to …

Comprehending and modifying software is at the heart of many software engineering tasks,
and this explains the growing interest that software reverse engineering has gained in the …

Refactoring aims at improving the internal structure of a software system without changing its
external behavior. Previous studies empirically assessed, on the one hand, the benefits of …

Release notes document corrections, enhancements, and, in general, changes that were
implemented in a new release of a software project. They are usually created manually and …