Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, January / February 2008

Research Articles

Filippo Ricca, Emanuele Pianta, Paolo Tonella, Christian Girardi:
Improving Web site understanding with keyword-based clustering. 1-29
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Denis Kozlov, Jussi Koskinen, Markku Sakkinen, Jouni Markkula:
Assessing maintainability change over multiple software releases. 31-58
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Teemu Kanstrén:
Towards a deeper understanding of test coverage. 59-76
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Andreas Bollin:
Concept location in formal specifications. 77-105
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Jim Buckley, Andrew P. LeGear, Chris Exton, Ross Cadogan, Trevor Johnston, Bill Looby, Rainer Koschke:
Encapsulating targeted component abstractions using software Reflexion Modelling. 107-134
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Ramya Ravichandar, James D. Arthur, Shawn A. Bohner, David P. Tegarden:
Improving change tolerance through Capabilities-based design: an empirical analysis. 135-170
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Hector M. Olague, Letha H. Etzkorn, Sherri L. Messimer, Harry S. Delugach:
An empirical validation of object-oriented class complexity metrics and their ability to predict error-prone classes in highly iterative, or agile, software: a case study. 171-197
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Harvey P. Siy, Parvathi Chundi, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Mahadevan Subramaniam:
A segmentation-based approach for temporal analysis of software version repositories. 199-222
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Editorials

Andy Zaidman, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Orla Greevy:
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension through dynamic analysis (PCODA). 223-225
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Special Issue Papers

David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chao Liu:
Mining temporal rules for software maintenance. 227-247
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Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Gilbert Hamann, Parminder Flora:
An automated approach for abstracting execution logs to execution events. 249-267
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Neil Walkinshaw, Kirill Bogdanov, Mike Holcombe, Sarah Salahuddin:
Improving dynamic software analysis by applying grammar inference principles. 269-290
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Chris Bennett, Del Myers, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Daniel M. Germán, D. Ouellet, Martin Salois, Philippe Charland:
A survey and evaluation of tool features for understanding reverse-engineered sequence diagrams. 291-315
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Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, Mark Harman:
Special Issue on Search-Based Software Maintenance. 317-319
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Special Issue Papers

Nicolas Desnos, Marianne Huchard, Guy Tremblay, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Vauttier:
Search-based many-to-one component substitution. 321-344
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Mark O'Keeffe, Mel Ó Cinnéide:
Search-based refactoring: an empirical study. 345-364
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Puneet Kapur, An Ngo-The, Günther Ruhe, Andrew Smith:
Optimized staffing for product releases and its application at Chartwell Technology. 365-386
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Research Articles

Andy Zaidman, Serge Demeyer:
Automatic identification of key classes in a software system using webmining techniques. 387-417
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Lee J. White, Khaled Jaber, Brian Robinson, Václav Rajlich:
Extended firewall for regression testing: an experience report. 419-433
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Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue:
A metric-based approach to identifying refactoring opportunities for merging code clones in a Java software system. 435-461
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Book Reviews

Carolyn B. Seaman:
Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice Authored by Penny Grubb and Armstrong A. Takang World Scientific, New Jersey. Copyright (c) 2003; 349 pages ISBN 981-238-426-X (paperback) US$40. 463-466
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