Developers write logging statements to generate logs and record system execution
behaviors to assist in debugging and software maintenance. However, deciding where to …

Developers write logging statements to generate logs that provide valuable runtime
information for debugging and maintenance of software systems. Log level is an important …

Developers rely on software logs for a variety of tasks, such as debugging, testing, program
comprehension, verification, and performance analysis. Despite the importance of logs, prior …

Logging is widely used in modern software development to record run-time information for
software systems and plays a significant role in software testing. Although the research area …

Large code refactoring projects can consist of hundreds of refactoring rules that are applied
iteratively to make code easier to maintain. Visualising the refactoring process can help …

Code smells are indicators of some design flaws in the software code. The evolutionary
property of an object-oriented software product increases the number of code smells with …

Improving design is a key research challenge during software maintenance. It aims at
identifying and mitigating structural characteristics that may cause future problems (code …

Software maintenance is a necessary and inevitable activity in software engineering. It helps
in keeping a software system healthy with the continuous change mandated by the changing …

This thesis concerns advanced code differencing techniques in the context of automated
large-scale refactoring for legacy software systems. Commonly, differencing compares two …

Due to the lack of practical guidelines on how to write logging statements and large volume
of logs routinely generated by software products, how to make proper logging decisions and …