Recovering the architecture is the first step towards reengineering a software system. Many reverse engineering tools use top-down exploration as a way of providing a visual and ...
The paper presents a new approach to source code exploration, which is the result of integrating the Google Desktop Search (GDS) engine into the Eclipse development environment. T...
Through the automation of empirical evaluation we hope to alleviate evaluation problems encountered by software designers who are relatively new to the process. Barriers to good e...
Laurian Hobby, John Booker, D. Scott McCrickard, C...
Function Point Analysis measures user requested functionality independent of the technology used for implementation. Software applications are represented stract model that contai...
Relevance profiling is a general process for withindocument retrieval. Given a query, a profile of retrieval status values is computed by sliding a fixed sized window across a doc...