Search Results - "Proceedings 2000 International Conference on Software Maintenance"

Evolution in open source software: a case study by Godfrey, Qiang Tu

“…Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the…”
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Restructuring program identifier names by Caprile, Tonella

“…The identifiers chosen by programmers as entity names contain valuable information. They are often the starting point for the program understanding activities,…”
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Information retrieval models for recovering traceability links between code and documentation by Antoniol, Canfora, Casazza, De Lucia

“…The research described in the paper is concerned with the application of information retrieval to software maintenance, and in particular to the problem of…”
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Identifying reasons for software changes using historic databases by Mockus, Votta

“…Large scale software products must constantly change in order to adapt to a changing environment. Studies of historic data from legacy software systems have…”
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Web site analysis: structure and evolution by Ricca, Tonella

“…Web sites are becoming important assets for several companies, which need to incorporate sophisticated technologies into complex and large Web based systems…”
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C/C++ conditional compilation analysis using symbolic execution by Ying Hu, Merlo, Dagenais, Lague

“…Conditional compilation is one of the most powerful parts of a C/C++ environment available for building software for different platforms with different feature…”
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Studying the evolution and enhancement of software features by Hsi, Potts

“…The evolution and enhancement of features during system evolution can have significant effects on its coherence as well as its internal architecture. Studying…”
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Metrics of software evolution as effort predictors - a case study by Ramil, Lehman

“…Despite its importance, cost estimation in the context of continuing software evolution has been relatively unexplored. This paper addresses this omission by…”
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Can metrics help to bridge the gap between the improvement of OO design quality and its automation? by Sahraoui, Godin, Miceli

“…During the evolution of object-oriented (OO) systems, the preservation of a correct design should be a permanent quest. However, for systems involving a large…”
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ConSIT: a conditioned program slicer by Danicic, Fox, Harman, Hierons

“…Conditioned slicing is a powerful generalisation of static and dynamic slicing which has applications to many problems in software maintenance and evolution,…”
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A survey of black-box modernization approaches for information systems by Comella-Dorda, Wallnau, Seacord, Robert

“…Information systems are critical assets for modern enterprises and incorporate key knowledge acquired over the life of an organization. These systems must be…”
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Software architecture transformations by Fahmy, Holt

“…In order to understand and improve software, we commonly examine and manipulate its architecture. For example, we may want to examine the architecture at…”
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TraceGraph: immediate visual location of software features by Lukoit, Wilde, Stowell, Hennessey

“…Software engineers often need to locate where particular features of a program are implemented in order to fix a bug or introduce an enhancement. This paper…”
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Software maintenance types-a fresh view by Chapin

“…Compatible with the recently proposed ontology of software maintenance, the paper proposes a fresh view of the types of software maintenance. The paper offers…”
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Techniques of maintaining evolving component-based software by Ye Wu, Dai Pan, Mei-Hwa Chen

“…Component based software engineering has been increasingly adopted for software development. Such an approach using reusable components as the building blocks…”
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Recovering class diagrams from data-intensive legacy systems by Di Lucca, Fasolino, De Carlini

“…Several reverse engineering methods for recovering objects from legacy systems have been proposed in the literature, but most of them neglect to identify the…”
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Beyond productivity in software maintenance: factors affecting lead time in servicing users' requests by Taizan Chan

“…Research on the economics of software maintenance has concentrated on software maintenance productivity. More often than not, maintenance productivity is…”
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Bridging program comprehension tools by design navigation by Robitaille, Schauer, Keller

“…Source code investigation is one of the most time-consuming activities during software maintenance and evolution, yet currently-available tool support suffers…”
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Leveraging software reengineering systems for heterogeneous distributed computing environments by Chia-Chu Chiang

“…ASG's Existing Systems Workbench (ESW) is comprehensive, integrated tool set that supports the software reengineering process. These software reengineering…”
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Prevention is better than cure [the Year 2000 problem] by Kajko-Mattsson, Bjorkman, Nyamesah, Sors, Lundh

“…Was all the mania lending up to the turn of the millennium warranted or was it just a load of computer maintenance ballyhoo designed to attract attention? In…”
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