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 ...

A plugin is a way for a third party to extend the functionality of an application. A plugin implements extension points declared by application or other plugins. Also, a plugin can define extension ...

Using generics results in more robust code and avoids ClassCastExceptions in your Java programs. This in-depth tutorial introduces you to generics and their types and methods. Generics are used in ...

An abstract class is a template definition of methods and variables in a specific class, or category of objects. In programming, objects are units of code, and each object is made into a generic class ...

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 ...

ASTExtractor is an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) extractor for Java source code, based on the Eclipse compiler. The tool functions as a wrapper of the Eclipse compiler and allows exporting the AST of ...