Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
Abstract—Change coupling is the implicit relationship between two or more software artifacts that have been observed to frequently change together during the evolution of a softw...
Refactorings are behavior-preserving program transformations that automate design evolution in object-oriented applications. Three kinds of design evolution are: schema transformat...
This article presents an approach to using open-source tools and open-source projects to add realistic and practical examples to a course on software design in a professional maste...
Evidence suggests that as software ages the original realizations of design patterns remain in place, and participants in design pattern realizations accumulate “grime” – no...