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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
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...
CW
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2002
IEEE
A number of interesting phenomena can be observed when lifelong processes of object-oriented software are analyzed from the viewpoint of software evolution. This paper proposes a ...
CE
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Design patterns have become a widely acknowledged software engineering practice and therefore have been incorporated in the curricula of most computer science departments. This pa...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
This work presents a descriptive and analytic study of classes playing zero, one, or two roles in six different design patterns (and combinations thereof). First, we answer three...
ESEM
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2007
ACM
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...