Lectures

Chapter: Introduction
Suggested Reading:

• S. Demeyer, S.Ducasse, O.Nierstrasz – Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, Chapter 1 (pg. 1-14)
• M.M Lehman – Laws of Software Evolution Revisited (Section 1 and 2)

Chapter: Reverse Engineering
Suggested Reading:

• S. Demeyer, S.Ducasse, O.Nierstrasz – Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, Chapter 2-5 (pg. 17-117)
• M.Lanza, R.Marinescu - Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice, Chapter 3 (pg. 23-44)
• M.Lanza - The Evolution Matrix: Recovering Software Evolution using Software Visualization Techniques

Chapter: Detection of Design Problems
Suggested Reading:

• M.Lanza, R.Marinescu - Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice, Chapter 4 (pg. 45-72)
• M. Fowler – Refactorings, Chapter 3 (pg. 75-87)

Chapter: History Analysis - 1
Suggested Reading:

• T.Girba - Modeling History to Understand Software Evolution, Chapter 3 (Section 3.5); 4 (Sect. 4.1-4.3) ; 5 (Section 5.3.1, 5.4.1, 5.5) ; 7 (Section 7.3)
• M.Balint, T.Girba, R.Marinescu – How Developers Copy
• R.Marinescu, C.Marinescu – Are the clients of flawed classes (also) defect prone?

Chapter: History Analysis - 2
Suggested Reading:

• A. Tornhill – Software (r)Evolution — Part 1: Predict Maintenance Problems in Large Codebases
• A. Tornhill – Software (r)Evolution — Part 2: Novel Techniques to Prioritize Technical Debt

Chapter: Restructuring
Suggested Reading:

• S. Demeyer, S.Ducasse, O.Nierstrasz – Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns, Chapter 9 & Chapter 10
• M. Fowler – Refactorings, Chapter 10 -Rename Method (pg. 273-274)

Chapter: Empirical Software Engineering
Chapter: Empirical Software Engineering (Ownership)
Chapter: Towards the art of readable code
Chapter: Genetic Programming