Most software is accompanied by frequent changes, whereas the implementation of a single
change can affect many different parts of the system. Approaches for Impact Analysis have …

Coupling metrics capture the degree of interaction and relationships among source code
elements in software systems. A vast majority of existing coupling metrics rely on structural …

Typical software engineering activities, such as program maintenance or reengineering,
result in frequent changes of software which are often accompanied by unintended side …

The paper explores Static Execute After (SEA) dependencies in the program and their dual
Static Execute Before (SEB) dependencies. It empirically compares the SEA/SEB …

In change impact analysis, obtaining guidance from automatic tools would be highly
desirable since this activity is generally seen as a very difficult program comprehension …

As integrated circuit technologies get smaller, circuit and architectural trends make
transmitting data across long on-chip wires increasingly important yet increasingly …

This paper presents the results of a large scale empirical study of coherent dependence
clusters. All statements in a coherent dependence cluster depend upon the same set of …

In this paper, we study the hidden dependencies that are a special kind of data flows. They
play an important role in software maintenance and evolution because they propagate …

While empowering a wide range of software engineering tasks, the traditional fine-grained
software dependence (TSD) model can face great scalability challenges that hinder its …

The traditional software dependence (TSD) model based on the system dependence graph
enables precise fine-grained program dependence analysis that supports a range of …