Lose sight of the existence of system crosscutting concerns, e.g. safety and quality etc, often causes the system hard to maintain and evolve according to the changing environment...
Dynamic platforms where components can be loaded at runtime can introduce risks to applications stability if components are not previously known before deployment. It may be neede...
Code clones are generally considered harmful in software development, and the predominant approach is to try to eliminate them through refactoring. However, recent research has pr...
As software systems continue to grow and evolve, locating code for maintenance and reuse tasks becomes increasingly difficult. Existing static code search techniques using natura...
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is gaining popularity with the wider adoption of languages such as AspectJ. During AspectJ software evolution, when regression tests fail, it may...