The purpose of refactoring is to improve the quality of a software system by changing its internal design so that it is easier to understand or modify, or less prone to errors and...
Adapting software components to be used in a particular application is a crucial issue in software component based technology. In fact, software components can be used in contexts ...
Design by contract is a practical methodology for developing code together with its specification. The contract consists of class invariants and method preand postconditions. As ...
Maayan Goldstein, Yishai A. Feldman, Shmuel S. Tys...
Copy-paste programming is dangerous as it may lead to hidden dependencies between different parts of the system. Modifying clones is not always straight forward, because we might ...
Abstract. Applying refactoring in a model-driven software engineering context raises many new challenges that need to be addressed. In this paper, we consider model-driven software...