The assessment of the changeability of software systems is of major concern for buyers of the large systems found in fast-moving domains such as telecommunications. One way of app...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
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, ...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
Measuring structural design properties of a software system, such as coupling, cohesion, or complexity, is a promising approach towards early quality assessments. To use such meas...
This paper presents an approach to build and visualize traceability links and properties of a set of OO software releases. The process recovers an "as is" design from C+...
Giuliano Antoniol, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Luci...