Modern network security rests on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer
Security (TLS) protocols. Distributed systems, mobile and desktop applications, embedded …

Refactoring engines are standard tools in today's Integrated Development Environments
(IDEs). They allow programmers to perform one refactoring at a time, but programmers need …

Today, many software systems are configurable with conditional compilation. Just like any
software system, configurable systems need to be refactored in their evolution, but their …

Regression testing checks that recent project changes do not break previously working
functionality. Although important, regression testing is costly when changes are frequent …

Currently most developers have to apply manual steps and use test suites to improve
confidence that transformations applied to object-oriented (OO) and aspect-oriented (AO) …

Refactoring engines may have overly strong preconditions preventing developers from
applying useful transformations. We find that 32 percent of the Eclipse and JRRT test suites …

Context: Developers design test suites to verify that software meets its expected behaviors.
Many dynamic analysis techniques are performed on the exploitation of execution traces …

Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs),(also called as Geo-Social Networks), has been
attracting more and more users by providing services that integrate social activities with …

Extract local variable is a well-known and widely used refactoring. It is frequently employed
to replace one or more occurrences of a complex expression with simple accesses to a …

Refactoring engines may have overly weak conditions, overly strong conditions, and
transformation issues related to the refactoring definitions. We find that 86% of the test suites …