It has long been accepted that requirements analysis should precede architectural design and implementation, but in software evolution and reverse engineering this concern with bl...
Software systems are complex and difficult to analyze. Reengineering is a complex activity that usually involves combining different techniques and tools. Moose is an reengineerin...
Software systems are designed and engineered to process data. However, software is data too. The size and variety of today's software artifacts and the multitude of stakehold...
Abstract—Object-oriented (OO) software is usually organized into subsystems using the concepts of package or module. Such modular structure helps applications to evolve when faci...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...