Achievements and challenges in software reverse engineering Page 1 142 communications of
the acm | april 2011 | vol. 54 | no. 4 review articles the need FOR changing existing software has …

At the heart of software evolution is a sequence of edit actions, called an edit script, made to
a source code file. Since software systems are stored version by version, the edit script has …

The minimum spanning tree clustering algorithm is known to be capable of detecting
clusters with irregular boundaries. In this paper, we propose two minimum spanning tree …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a feature‐based characterization of version
control systems (VCSs), providing an overview about the state‐of‐the‐art of versioning …

Identifying repetitive code changes benefits developers, tool builders, and researchers. Tool
builders can automate the popular code changes, thus improving the productivity of …

When it is necessary to express changes between two source code files as a list of edit
actions (an edit script), modern tree differencing algorithms are superior to most text-based …

Analyzing and understanding source code changes is important in a variety of software
maintenance tasks. To this end, many code differencing and code change summarization …

Abstract The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) defines Static Application
Security Testing (SAST) tools as those that can help find security vulnerabilities in the source …

For analyzing changes in source code, edit scriptsare used to describe the differences
between two versions of afile. These scripts consist of a list of actions that, applied to …

Detecting “similar code” is useful for many software engineering tasks. Current tools can
help detect code with statically similar syntactic and–or semantic features (code clones) and …