The success and failure of software projects are based on performance indicators such as: compliance to the customer first requirements, customer satisfaction, software quality, budget overrun, schedule compliance and so on. Certainly, project management approaches and best practices known in the field of software engineering or others have been used in software maintenance (SM) management to b...

Understanding control ows in a computer program is essential for many software engineering tasks such as testing, debugging, reverse engineering, and maintenance. In this paper, we present a control ow analysis technique to analyze the control ow in Java bytecode. To perform the analysis, we construct a control ow graph (CFG) for Java bytecode not only at the intraprocedural level but also at t...

Software maintenance is an important phase in the software development life cycle. More than 75% of maintenance efforts are enhancement. Currently, most enhancement projects are carried out in an ad hoc manner, depending on the knowledge and experience of the developers. Software reengineering aims to provide an engineering approach for software enhancements. In this paper, we present an agile ...

The program dependence graph and its use in optimization. Experiment on the automatic detection of function clones in a software system using metrics. 38 sions at this point. Nevertheless, the initial feedback from the individuals involved in the maintenance is extremely positive. The results were recognized as correct and useful. Important information on the application in the current form, lo...

INTRODUCTION: REVERSE ENGINEERING This paper motivates and describes a research program in the area of reverse engineering being conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Reverse engineering is an emerging interest area within the software engineering eld. Software engineering itself is concerned with improving the productivity of the software development process and the quality of the ...

In this paper, a knowledge-based information system for the plant operation of steel making company has been proposed. The system, which is named as K-VRS(Knowledge-based Virtual Reality System), provides a connection between ERP plant maintenance module and knowledgebased engineering methodologies, and thus, enables network-based highly effective plant maintenance process. The developed system...

Object-oriented processes are often touted as solutions to software development problems. The popularity of object-oriented method has generated many favorable reviews, particularly in the popular media. Object-oriented development promises to reduce the maintenance effort. However, these promises are not based on reliable experimentation. The software engineering literature does include some e...