Modern programs make extensive use of reusable software libraries. For example, a study of a number of large Java applications shows that between 17% and 30% of the classes in tho...
Johannes Henkel, Christoph Reichenbach, Amer Diwan
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
Model-based development is becoming an increasingly common development methodology. In important domains like embedded systems already major parts of the code are generated from m...
Software product lines (PLs) are large, complex systems, demanding high maintainability and enhanced flexibility. Nonetheless, in the state of the art PL methods, features are sca...
Abstract. An architectural bad smell is a commonly (although not always intentionally) used set of architectural design decisions that negatively impacts system lifecycle propertie...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...