A commonly used strategy to address the scalability challenge in object-oriented reverse engineering is to synthesize coarse-grained representations, such as package diagrams. How...
In order to support the maintenance of object-oriented software systems, the quality of their design must be evaluated using adequate quantification means. In spite of the curren...
Increasingly, applications are being built by combining existing software components. For the most part, a software developer can treat components as black-boxes. However, for som...
Andrew Chan, Reid Holmes, Gail C. Murphy, Annie T....
Abstract. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) favors the construction of models composed of several submodels, modeling the system comunder development at different levels of abs...
Although quality is not easy to evaluate since it is a complex concept compound by different aspects, several properties that make a good object-oriented design have been recogniz...