Software metrics as a subject area is over 30 years old, but it has barely penetrated into mainstream software engineering. A key reason for this is that most software metrics act...
Software evolution research inherently has several resourceintensive logistical constraints. Archived project artifacts, such as those found in source code repositories and bug tr...
Jennifer Bevan, E. James Whitehead Jr., Sunghun Ki...
The primary objective of this paper was to examine the extent to which Gutman’s Means-End Chain Model can be used to describe the influences given to the choice of characteristi...
We propose a mechanism for object access control which is based on the UML. Specifically, we propose use of ownership and immutability constraints on UML associations and verifica...
In Eclipse, and in most other development environments, refactorings are activated by selecting code, then using a menu or hotkey, and finally engaging in a dialog with a "wi...