Abstract: Software comprehension is an important part of software maintenance. To understand a piece of large and complex software, the first problem to be solved is where to start the understanding ...

Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also known as ...

Imagine you are an expert object-oriented Java developer who meticulously crafts code the way an artist cares for their masterpiece. You believe clean code is an absolute necessity. Classes with clear ...

Programmers typically target a specific, long-term support release when they develop applications. That means for the past several years, most Java developers were limited to the Java 8 or Java 11 ...

Abstract: Key classes have become excellent starting points for developers to understand unknown software systems. Up to now, a variety of approaches have been proposed to mine key classes in a ...