Business stakeholders need to have clear and realistic goals if they want to meet commitments in application development. As a consequence, at early stages they prioritize require...
We present a method to identify stakeholders and their preferences about non-functional requirements (NFR) by using use case diagrams of existing systems. We focus on the changes ...
Merging and splitting source code artifacts is a common activity during the lifespan of a software system; as developers rethink the essential structure of a system or plan for a ...
The FreeBSD operating system more than doubled in size between version 2 and version 4. Many changes to primary modularity are easy to spot at a high-level. For example, new devic...
Code-based metrics such as coupling and cohesion are used to measure a system's structural complexity. But dealing with large systems--those consisting of several millions of...