The documentation of a program often falls behind the evolution of the program source files. When this happens it may be attractive to shift the documentation mode from updating ...
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and individual issues are s...
Maintenance costs make up the bulk of the total life cycle costs of a software system. Besides organizational issues such as knowledge management and turnover, the longterm mainte...
Florian Deissenboeck, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert
Software decay is a phenomenon that plagues aging software systems. While in recent years, there has been significant progress in the area of automatic detection of “code smells...
In this paper, we describe the development of CiteSpace as an integrated environment for identifying and tracking thematic trends in scientific literature. The goal is to simplify...