Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
The success of an object-oriented software development project highly depends on how well the designers can capture the Hot Spots of the application domain, that is, those aspects...
One of the important activities in re-engineering process is detecting design flaws. Such design flaws prevent an efficient maintenance, and further development of a system. Th...
Quality and economical aspects of software development are strictly related. Adaptability, as a feature of quality, fosters reuse and the resulting economies of scale. Domain anal...
Paolo Predonzani, Giancarlo Succi, Andrea Valerio,...
A number of papers have investigated the relationships between design metrics and the detection of faults in object-oriented software. Several of these studies have shown that suc...