The In?uence of Software Maintainability on Issue Handling

Ensuring maintainability is an important aspect of the software development cycle. Maintainable software will be easier to understand and change correctly. The Software Improvement Group (SIG) has developed a method to measure a software system's maintainability based on well-known code metrics. In this thesis we explore the relationships...

Identifying Cross-Cutting Concerns Using Software Repository Mining

Cross-cutting concerns are pieces of functionality that have not been captured into a separate module. They form a problem as they hinder program comprehension and maintainability. Solving this problem requires first identifying these cross-cutting concerns in pieces of software. Several methods for doing this have been proposed but the option...