The importance of a clear conceptual and terminological framework for software process engineering and the shortcomings of previous clari cation attempts are discussed. A rst issu...
—Software reuse through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is an integral part of software development. The functionality offered by an API is not always accessed uniforml...
Software clones are identical or similar pieces of code. They are often the result of copy–and–paste activities as ad-hoc code reuse by programmers. Software clones research i...
Katsuro Inoue, Stanislaw Jarzabek, James R. Cordy,...
—Information systems are expected to satisfy increasingly ambitious requirements, while reducing time–to–market has become a primary objective. This trend has necessitated th...
Search-based software engineering is an emerging paradigm that uses automated search algorithms to help designers iteratively find solutions to complicated design problems. For exa...