Software that cannot evolve is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant revision and renegotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new technol...
Ronald Morrison, Graham N. C. Kirby, Dharini Balas...
It is well known that software maintenance and evolution are expensive activities, both in terms of invested time and money. Reverse engineering activities support the obtainment ...
Modular Monadic Semantics (MMS) is a well-known mechanism for structuring modular denotational semantic definitions for programming languages. The principal attraction of MMS is ...
Philip Weaver, Garrin Kimmell, Nicolas Frisby, Per...
Abstract. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto industrial standard of an object-oriented modeling language. It consists of several sublanguages which are suited to ...
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...