Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
Gregory Gay, Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus, Tim Men...
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...
Tracking the progress of a project is often done through imprecise manually gathered information, like progress reports, or through automatic metrics such as Lines Of Code (LOC). ...
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any informa...
With advances in hardware, instruction set architectures are undergoing continual evolution. As a result, compilers are under constant pressure to adapt and take full advantage of...