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...
In today’s knowledge-intensive engineering environment, information management is an important and essential activity. However, existing researches of Engineering Information Man...
Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
In the last years, as object-oriented software systems became more and more complex, the need of performing automatically reverse engineering upon these systems has increased sign...