Impact analysis, determining when a change in one part of a program affects other parts of the program, is timeconsuming and problematic. Impact analysis is rarely used to predict...
Software metrics should support managerial decision making in software projects. We explain how traditional metrics approaches, such as regression-based models for cost estimation...
Norman E. Fenton, William Marsh, Martin Neil, Patr...
Building a configuration management (CM) system is a difficult endeavor that regularly requires tens of thousands of lines of code to be written. To reduce this effort, several ex...
The paper describes results of an empirical study, where some hypotheses about the impact of reuse on defect-density and stability, and about the impact of component size on defec...
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Reidar Conradi, Ole M. Killi,...
This paper presents POLUS, a software maintenance tool capable of iteratively evolving running software into newer versions. POLUS's primary goal is to increase the dependabi...
Haibo Chen, Jie Yu, Rong Chen, Binyu Zang, Pen-Chu...