Polymorphism and class hierarchies are key to increasing the extensibility of an object-oriented program but also raise challenges for program comprehension. Despite many advances...
A value can be understood as a belief that one mode of conduct is preferable to others. The user-interface of computer games mediates all player conduct in the game and is therefo...
Pippin Barr, James Noble, Robert Biddle, Rilla Kha...
Versioning systems such as CVS exhibit a large potential to investigate and understand the evolution of large software systems. Bug Reporting systems such as Bugzilla help to unde...
Understanding function signature change properties and evolution patterns is important for researchers concerned with alleviating signature change impacts, understanding software ...
Understanding performance and related issues in a complex system requires analyzing where and why the program spends its resources. In a reactive system such as a interactive appl...