General theories of software engineering must balance between providing full
understanding of a single case and providing partial understanding of many cases. In this …

“This is an incredibly wise and useful book. The authors have considerable real-world
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Context Code smells are patterns in source code associated with an increased defect rate
and a higher maintenance effort than usual, but without a clear definition. Code smells are …

It is pointed out that a major problem in software maintenance is the revalidation of a
modified code. It is economically desirable to restrict that process only to those parts of the …

Background: Developers spend a significant amount of time and effort to localize bugs. In
the literature, many researchers proposed state-of-the-art bug localization models to help …

Software architecture is crucial in determining success or failure in a variety of software
development and design fields. Typically, as a system evolves, software architecture …

Software-intensive Science, and in particular the method of modelling large and complex
systems by means of computer simulation, presents acute dilemmas of epistemic trust. Some …

In this paper, a literature review and classification scheme for selected software engineering
researches is presented. The study shows that an increasing volume of software …

Background Empirical evidence shows that dependency cycles among software
components are pervasive in real-life software systems, although such cycles are known to …

It is considered that software architecture usually degrades as the system evolves. This
phenomenon is termed as architectural degeneration. This paper describes a defect …