In past and recent years, the issues related to managing technical debt received significant
attention by researchers from both industry and academia. There are several factors that …

Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate “not quite right code
which we postpone making it right”. One noticeable symptom of technical debt is …

Mobile apps are becoming complex software systems that must be developed quickly and
evolve continuously to fit new user requirements and execution contexts. However …

Open Source Software (OSS) is continuously gaining acceptance in commercial
organizations. It is in this regard that those organizations strive for a better understanding of …

Software lineage refers to the evolutionary relationship among a collection of software. The
goal of software lineage inference is to recover the lineage given a set of program binaries …

In general it is assumed that a software product evolves within the authoring company or
group of developers that develop the project. However, in some cases different groups of …

Code review is a software quality assurance practice, yet remains time-consuming (eg, due
to slow feedback from reviewers). Recent Neural Machine Translation (NMT)-based code …

Software evolution relates to how software systems evolve over time. With the emergence of
the open source paradigm, researchers are provided with a wealth of data for open source …

Software evolution continues throughout the life cycle of the software. During the evolution of
software system, it has been observed that the developers have a tendency to copy the …

This work aims at discussing the complexity aspect of software while demonstrating its
relationship with security. Complexity is an essential part of software; however, numerous …