The metaphor of technical debt was introduced to express the trade off between productivity
and quality, ie, when developers take shortcuts or perform quick hacks. More recently, our …

Application Programming Interface (API) documents represent one of the most important
references for API users. However, it is frequently reported that the documentation is …

Refactoring is a common software development practice and many simple refactorings can
be performed automatically by tools. Identifier renaming is a widely performed refactoring …

A powerful, but limited, way to view software is as source code alone. Treating a program as
a sequence of instructions enables it to be formalized and makes it amenable to …

Past and recent studies have shown that design smells which are poor solutions to recurrent
design problems make object-oriented systems difficult to maintain, and that they negatively …

API documentation is useful for developers to better understand how to correctly use the
libraries. However, not all libraries provide good documentation on API usages. To provide …

There exist multiple automated approaches of source code documentation generation. They
often describe methods in abstract terms, using the words contained in the static source …

Automated source code documentation approaches often describe methods in abstract
terms, using the words contained in the static source code or code excerpts from …

Developers often document their code with semi-structured comments such as Javadoc.
Such comments are a form of specification, and often document the intended behavior of a …

The accelerating urbanization procedure is putting increasing pressure on the management
of cities. The administrative zones by which a city is managed are setup based on historical …