The notion of location of part objects is introduced, yielding a reference to the containing object. Combined with locally defined objects and classes (block structure), singularl...
Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
The idea of a combined reference model- and view-based specification approach has been proposed recently in the software engineering community. In this paper we present a specifica...
Gregor Engels, Reiko Heckel, Gabriele Taentzer, Ha...
Abstract -- Software architectures enable large-scale software development. Component reuse and substitutability, two key aspects of large-scale development, must be planned for du...
Nenad Medvidovic, Peyman Oreizy, Jason E. Robbins,...
Previous studies on program comprehension were carried out largely in the context of procedural languages. Our purpose is to develop and evaluate a cognitive model of object-orient...