Component-based software development (CBSD) is a very promising software engineering technique for improving reuse and maintenance. Nevertheless, there are still some difficultie...
Miro Casanova, Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Viviane ...
Abstract. Quality goals have to be under a special consideration during software architectural design. Evolvability constitutes a quality goal with a special relevance for business...
Assessing software quality and understanding how events in its evolution have lead to anomalies are two important steps toward reducing costs in software maintenance. Unfortunatel...
Guillaume Langelier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Pierre Po...
The paper presents a usability study conducted with graduate and undergraduate computer science students, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a software visualization tool n...
During software evolution, adaptive, and corrective maintenance are common reasons for changes. Often such changes cluster around key components. It is therefore important to anal...
James M. Bieman, Anneliese Amschler Andrews, Helen...