Overly long methods hamper the maintainability of software—they are hard to understand and to change, but also difficult to test, reuse, and profile. While technically there are many opportunities to refactor long methods, little is known about their origin and their evolution...
Comments and identifiers are the main source of documentation of the source code and are therefore an integral part of the development and the maintenance of a program. As English is the world language, most comments and identifiers are written in English...
When large software systems evolve, the quality of source code is essential for successful maintenance. Controlling code quality continuously requires adequate tool support...
At the International Conference of Program Comprehension 2015, the paper Consise and Consistent Naming of Florian Deissenböck et al. received the Most Influential Paper Award. Since its publication ten years ago, the paper was has been cited over 100 times.
Our consultant and co-founder of the company, Elmar Jürgens , was nominated as Junior Fellow of GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik). GI is the German Informatics Society which is a non-profit organization. It promotes interests of computer scientists in academia, industry, and politics.
The paper Principles and a Process for Successful Industry Cooperation - The Case of TUM and Munich Re with Elmar Jürgens as co-author won the Best Paper Award of the Software Engineering Research And Industrial Practice Workshop 2015.
At the International Conference of Program Comprehension 2014, the paper Prioritizing Maintainability Defects Based on Refactoring Recommendations written by Daniela Steidl et al. received the Best Industry Paper Award.