By the early 1990s the need for reengineering legacy systems was already acute, but recently the demand has increased significantly with the shift toward web-based user interfaces...
There has been increasing pressure on the health care sector to adopt information technologies to rationalize service delivery and increase service quality. Medical information sy...
This paper empirically explores the correlations between a suite of structural stability metrics for object-oriented designs and post-release defect density. The investigated stab...
Often, the only sources of information about the evolution of software systems are the systems themselves and their histories. Version control repositories contain information on ...
Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change hi...