The structural stability of an object-oriented design (OOD) refers to the extent to which the structure of the design is preserved throughout the evolution of the software from on...
—Object-oriented software quality models usually use metrics of classes and of relationships among classes to assess the quality of systems. However, software quality does not de...
During the life cycle of a software system, the source code is changed many times. We study how developers can be enabled to get insight in these changes, in order to understand t...
Design patterns are recognized, named solutions to common design problems. The use of the most commonly referenced design patterns should promote adaptable and reusable program co...
James M. Bieman, Greg Straw, Huxia Wang, P. Willar...
Design patterns are applied in software development to decouple individual concerns, so that a change in a design decision is isolated to one location of the code base. However, m...