Numerous tools and techniques have been developed to extract and analyze information
from software development artifacts. Yet, there is a lack of effective method to process, store …

Managing large and fast-evolving software systems can be a challenging task. Numerous
solutions have been developed to assist in this process, enhancing software quality and …

Programmers often need to reason about how a program evolved between two or more
program versions. Reasoning about program changes is challenging as there is a significant …

Even though different developers have varying levels of expertise, the tools in one
developer's integrated development environment (IDE) behave the same as the tools in …

Source code diffs are used on a daily basis as part of code review, inspection, and auditing.
To facilitate understanding, they are typically accompanied by explanations that describe the …

Extracting facts from software source code forms the foundation for any software analysis.
Experience shows, however, that extracting facts from programs written in a wide range of …

The dissertation proposes, realizes, and validates a novel approach for the representation
and analysis of differences between source-code documents. The approach is termed meta …

In modern software engineering, developers have to work with constantly evolving,
interconnected software systems. Understanding how and why these systems and their …

Change-impact analysis (CIA) is the task of determining the set of program elements
impacted by a program change. Precise CIA has great potential to avoid expensive testing …

With the advent of fast software evolution and multistage releases, temporal code analysis is
becoming useful for various purposes, such as bug cause identification, bug prediction or …