It is shown how software metrics and architectural patterns can be used for the management of software evolution. In the presented architecture-centric software evolutionmethod th...
Juha Gustafsson, Jukka Paakki, Lilli Nenonen, A. I...
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...
The globalization of software development helps to reduce business cost by outsourcing software design and development tasks. However, it also poses new challenges on the collabor...
Jing Dong, Sheng Yang, Dushyant S. Lad, Yongtao Su...
Abstract. It is more convenient to talk about changes in a domainspecific way than to formulate them at the programming construct level or—even worse—purely lexical level. Usi...
When analyzing the evolution history of a software project, we wish to develop results that generalize across projects. One approach is to analyze design patterns, permitting char...