Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Many reverse engineering approaches have been developed to analyze software systems written in different languages like C/C++ or Java. These approaches typically rely on a meta-mo...
We demonstrate how fine-grained memory protection can be used in support of transactional memory systems: first showing how a software transactional memory system (STM) can be m...
—Software developers often face challenges in reusing open source frameworks due to several factors such as the framework complexity and lack of proper documentation. In this pap...
In a previous study, we showed that indentation was regular across multiple languages and the variance in the level of indentation of a block of revised code is correlated with me...