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How much does unused code matter for maintenance?
2012
2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
Software systems contain unnecessary code. Its maintenance causes unnecessary costs. We present tool-support that employs dynamic analysis of deployed software to detect unused code as an approximation of unnecessary code, and static analysis to reveal its changes during maintenance. We present a case study on maintenance of unused code in an industrial software system over the course of two years. It quantifies the amount of code that is unused, the amount of maintenance activity that went
doi:10.1109/icse.2012.6227109
dblp:conf/icse/EderJJHVP12
fatcat:fs3flm5ohfdc5lounwuvlt52eq