This paper describes the results of a study where the impact of Object-Oriented design on software quality characteristics is experimentally evaluated. A suite of metrics for OO d...
Abstract. This paper presents a systematic consideration of the major issues involved in translation of executable design level software specification languages to directly model-c...
Fei Xie, Vladimir Levin, Robert P. Kurshan, James ...
Compared with texts, graphs are more intuitive to express comparative and structural information. Many graphical approaches, however, lack a formal basis for precise specification...
An approach to recover object oriented design patterns from design and code is presented. The pattern recovery process is based on a multi-stage filtering strategy to avoid combin...
Giuliano Antoniol, Roberto Fiutem, L. Cristoforett...
We study the impact of design patterns on quality attributes in the context of software maintenance and evolution. We show that, contrary to popular beliefs, design patterns in pr...