Software engineering is hampered by the fact that software systems quickly become so complex that they are hard to understand, evolve and maintain. Closer integration of code and ...
Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products. This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before ...
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
Design patterns are a standard means to create large software systems. However, with standard object-oriented techniques, typical implementations of such patterns are not themselv...
The Object Constraint Language (OCL) plays an important role in the elaboration of precise UML models. Although OCL was designed to be both formal and simple, UML/OCL models may be...