Advances in software engineering,

Topics and features:

• Includes several case studies and problems based on actual systems used by industrial research partners of CSER
• Examines the current challenges facing large-scale and legacy systems, for which substantial investments may be associated with mere maintenance
• Describes leading-edge research, providing insight to potential avenues for solving some of the problems facing the software industry
• Addresses advanced software engineering topics, such as software migration, code analysis, object-oriented metrics, and automatic architectural clustering.

Contents

1. Introduction

Part I: Empirical Studies

2.O-O Metrics: Principles and Practice
3.Experiences Conducting Studies of the Work Practices of Software Engineers
4.Towards Assessing the Usefulness of the TKSee Software Exploration Tool: A Case Study
5.Comparison of Clones Occurrence in Java and Modula-3 Software Systems

Part II: Architectural Recovery

6.The SPOOL Approach to Pattern-Based Recovery of Design Components
7.Evaluation of Approaches to Clustering for Program Comprehension and Remodularization
8.Automatic Architectural Clustering of Software
9.Discovering Implicit Inheritance Relations in Non Object-Oriented Code

Part III: Maintainability

10.Design Properties and Evolvability of Object-Oriented Systems
11.Using Textual Redundancy to Study Source Code Maintainability
12.Building Parallel Applications Using Design Patterns

Part IV: Tool Support

13.The SPOOL Design Repository: Architecture, Schema, and Mechanisms
14.The Software Bookshelf
15.Dynamic Documents Over the Web
16.Support for Geographically Dispersed Software Teams
17.Parsing C++ Code Despite Missing Declarations
18.Towards Environment-Retargetable Parser Generators