: In software design, laziness is a virtue: it's better to reuse than to redo. Design patterns are a good illustration. Patterns, a major advance in software architecture, pro...
The problem of managing the evolution of complex and large software systems is well known. Evolution implies reuse and modification of existing software artifacts, and this means t...
Today’s software developments are faced with steadily increasing expectations: software has to be developed faster, better, and cheaper. At the same time, application complexity ...
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Birk, Susanne Hartko...
Software patterns are generic solutions to recurring problems. They are represented as a triplet (problem, context, solution). Several kinds of software patterns were identified, ...
Software reuse technologies have been a driving force in significantly reducing both the time and cost of software specification, development, maintenance and evolution. However, t...