The need to decompose large, complex software systems into smaller, more manageable subsystems has been recognized for more than two decades. Many cluster analysis algorithms have been applied to the software domain, and several algorithms specializing ...

Most of the software code quality assessment and monitoring methods uses Quality Model (QM) as an aid to capture quality requirements of the software. An important aspect concerning use of QM is classification of Program Analysis (PA) rules into QM ...

IT industry loses tens of billions of dollars annually from security attacks such as malicious reverse engineering. To protect sensitive parts of software from such attacks, we designed a code obfuscation scheme based on nontrivial code clones. While ...

Siemens, Corporate Technology, Development Center, Asia Australia (CT DC AA) has been developing and maintaining several software projects for the Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities sectors of Siemens. The critical nature of ...

As a measure of software quality, current static code analyses reveal thousands of quality defects on systems in brown-field development in practice. Currently, there exists no way to prioritize among a large number of quality defects and developers ...

Knowledge Transition (KT) of legacy applications is a critical activity, often determining the quality of maintenance in the early stages of a maintenance life-cycle. We developed an integrated reverse engineering tool-suite that bootstraps the KT ...

Software visualization has become a major technique in program comprehension. Although many tools visualize the structure, behavior, and evolution of a program, they have no concern with how a tool user has understood it. Moreover, they miss the stuff ...

Program comprehension is a crucial activity, preliminary to any software maintenance task. Such an activity can be difficult when the source code is not adequately documented, or the documentation is outdated. Differently from the many existing ...

Although there is a principle that states a commit should only include changes for a single task, it is not always respected by developers. This means that code repositories often include commits that contain tangled changes. The presence of such ...

Method names are important for the software development process. It has been shown by some studies that the quality of method names affects software comprehension. In response, some approaches that evaluate comprehensibility of method names have been ...

In this paper, we present an emerging source code summarization technique that uses topic modeling to select keywords and topics as summaries for source code. Our approach organizes the topics in source code into a hierarchy, with more general topics ...

Due to the lack of (up-do-date) documentation, software maintenance and evolution processes often necessitate the recovery of a sucient understanding of the software system, before the latter can be adapted to new or changing requirements. To address ...

A class diagram of a software system enhances our ability to understand software design. However, this diagram is often unavailable. Developers usually reconstruct the diagram by reverse engineering it from source code. Unfortunately, the resultant ...

Understanding how a software system is structured, i.e. its architecture, is crucial for software comprehension. It allows developers to understand an implemented system and reason about how non-functional requirements are addressed. Yet, many systems ...

The growing number of questions related to mobile development in StackOverflow highlights an increasing interest of software developers in mobile programming. For the Android platform, 213,836 questions were tagged with Android-related labels in ...

The large success of Content management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress is largely due to the rich ecosystem of themes and plugins developed around the CMS that allows users to easily build and customize complex Web applications featuring photo ...

Program comprehension is a time-consuming task performed during the process of reusing, reengineering, and enhancing existing systems. Currently, there are tools to assist in program comprehension by means of dynamic analysis, but, e.g., most cannot ...

A documentation generator is a programming tool that creates documentation for software by analyzing the statements and comments in the software's source code. While many of these tools are manual, in that they require specially-formatted metadata ...

During the evolution of a software system, a large number of bug reports are submitted. Locating the source code files that need to be fixed to resolve the bugs is a challenging problem. Thus, there is a need for a technique that can automatically ...

The paper presents an approach, namely iMacPro, to recommend developers who are most likely to implement incoming change requests. iMacPro amalgamates the textual similarity between the given change request and source code, change proneness information,...