Software decay is a phenomenon that plagues aging software systems. While in recent years, there has been significant progress in the area of automatic detection of “code smells...
Inspections can be used to identify defects in software artifacts. In this way, inspection methods help to improve software quality, especially when used early in software develop...
Guilherme Travassos, Forrest Shull, Michael Freder...
One of the important activities in re-engineering process is detecting design flaws. Such design flaws prevent an efficient maintenance, and further development of a system. Th...
The object-oriented design process has been a hot topic in software development since it will improve product quality and productivity significantly, which is also a major issue i...
There is an undeniable demand to capture already proven and matured object-oriented design so that building reusable object-oriented software does not always have to start from scr...