Aspect-oriented refactoring is a promising technique for improving modularity and reducing complexity of existing software systems through encapsulating crosscutting concerns. As ...
Reishi Yokomori, Harvey P. Siy, Norihiro Yoshida, ...
ABSTRACT. Design patterns are well-known couples of problems-solutions for software engineering. By nature, they often lack support from languages and this further complicates the ...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Bug patterns are erroneous code idioms or bad coding practices that have been proved fail time and time again. They mainly arise from the misunderstanding of language features, th...
Reflective middleware has been proposed as an effective way to enhance adaptability of component-oriented middleware architectures. To be effectively adaptable, the implementation...