Recent research suggests that large software systems should have a documented system architecture. One form of documentation that may help describe the structure of software syste...
Code clones are generally considered harmful in software development, and the predominant approach is to try to eliminate them through refactoring. However, recent research has pr...
Reuse is an important means of reducing costs and effort during the development of complex software systems. A major challenge is to find suitable components in a large library wit...
Matthias Schmidt, Jan Polowinski, Jendrik Johannes...
Problem frames provide a means of analyzing and decomposing problems. They emphasise the world outside of the computer, helping the developer to focus on the problem domain, inste...
Jon G. Hall, Michael Jackson, Robin C. Laney, Bash...
Much of the research work on design patterns has primarily focused on discovering and documenting patterns. Design patterns promise early reuse benefits at the design stage. To rea...