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Cornelissen, S.G.M. (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author), Moonen, L. (author), Koschke, R. (author)Preprint of paper published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35 (5), 2009; doi:10.1109/TSE.2009.28 Program comprehension is an important activity in software maintenance, as software must be sufficiently understood before it can be properly modified. The study of a program's execution, known as dynamic analysis, has become a common...report 2008
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Adams, B. (author), De Schutter, K. (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author), Demeyer, S. (author), Tromp, H. (author), De Meuter, W. (author)Preprint of article published in: Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), 82 (4), 2009; doi:10.1016/j.jss.2008.09.031 This paper reports on the challenges of using aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to aid in re-engineering a legacy C application. More specifically, we describe how AOP helps in the important reverse engineering step which...report 2008
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Zaidman, A.E. (author), Demeyer, S. (author)Preprint of article published in: Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (Wiley), 20 (6), 2008; doi:10.1002/smr.370 Software engineers new to a project are often stuck sorting through hundreds of classes in order to find those few classes that offer a significant insight into the inner workings of the software...report 2008
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Cornelissen, B. (author), Holten, D. (author), Zaidman, A. (author), Moonen, L. (author), Van Wijk, J.J. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author)The use of dynamic information to aid in software understanding is a common practice nowadays. One of the many approaches concerns the comprehension of execution traces. A major issue in this context is scalability: due to the vast amounts of information, it is a very difficult task to successfully find your way through such traces without...report 2007
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Zaidman, A. (author), Van Rompaey, B. (author), Demeyer, S. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author)Engineering software systems is a multidisciplinary activity, whereby a number of artifacts must be created — and maintained — synchronously. In this paper we investigate whether production code and the accompanying tests co-evolve by exploring a project’s versioning system, code coverage reports and size-metrics. Three open source case studies...report 2007
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Cornelissen, B. (author), Van Deursen, A. (author), Moonen, L. (author), Zaidman, A. (author)Agile software development methods such as eXtreme Programming have brought renewed attention to testing during the software development process, both as a quality assurance method and as a form of live documentation. It is for this reason that a software system’s testsuite is an ideal starting point for gaining knowledge about its inner...report 2006