Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries between software building blocks such as ...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a design framework that permits the developer to build complex applications from smaller modules called “services”. When applying SOA to...
Heuristics have long been recognised as a way to tackle problems which are intractable because of their size or complexity. They have been used in software engineering for purpose...
Neville Churcher, Sarah Frater, Cong Phuoc Huynh, ...
Programmers need tools to help explore large software systems when performing software evolution tasks. A variety of tools have been created to improve the effectiveness of such e...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Martin P. Robillar...
We present a method to detect and visualize evolution patterns in C++ source code. Our method consists of three steps. First, we extract an annotated syntax tree (AST) from each v...