Software-product-line engineering aims at the development of variable and reusable
software systems. In practice, software product lines are often implemented with …

Systems software uses conditional compilation to manage crosscutting concerns in a very
fine-grained and efficient way, but at the expense of tangled and scattered conditional code …

Open source software systems are becoming increasingly important these days. Many
companies are investing in open source projects and lots of them are also using such …

The metrics can be applied by software maintenance, testing and evolution teams for a
variety of purposes. Various research studies have designed metrics models for analyzing …

Context Program queries play an important role in several software evolution tasks like
program comprehension, impact analysis, or the automated identification of anti-patterns for …

We describe how legacy C++ programs can be rejuvenated using C++ 11 features such as
generalized constant expressions, perfect forwarding, and lambda expressions. In general …

Despite its maturity and popularity, the C programming language still lacks tool support for
reliably performing even simple refactoring, browsing, or analysis operations. This is …

Program slicing is a well-established technique for identifying a reduced subset of a
program based on pre-defined criteria, leading to complexity reduction in subsequent …

Program queries play an important role in several software evolution tasks like program
comprehension, impact analysis, or the automated identification of anti-patterns for complex …

Fact extraction from software systems is the fundamental building block in the process of
understanding the relationships among the system's elements. It is evident that in real life …