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Identifiers are an important source of information during program understanding and maintenance. Programmers often use identifiers to build their mental models of the software artifacts. We have performed a preliminary study to examine the relation between the terms in identifiers, their spread in entities, and fault proneness. We introduced term entropy and context-coverage to measure how scattered...
Class hierarchies are key to flexible object-oriented design, but can also burden program comprehension activities when improperly designed or documented. This tool demo presents an Eclipse plug in called PATROOLS. It implements two software visualizations that capture the polymorphic usage of a class hierarchy by its clients, and can support understanding and quality assessment tasks related to class...
For long-lived systems, there is a need to address evolvability (i.e. a system's ability to easily accommodate changes) explicitly during the entire lifecycle. In this paper, we undertake a systematic review to obtain an overview of the existing studies in promoting software evolvability at architectural level. The search strategy identified 58 studies that were catalogued as primary studies for this...
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