The development of a family of applications in a domain can be greatly eased if patterns in the domain are systematically reused. Systematic use of such a pattern can be achieved ...
ion. riented language features, such as abstract classes, inheritance, dynamic binding, and parameterized types. Middleware, such as object-oriented frameworks for host infrastruct...
Abstract. The continuing trend towards more sophisticated technical applications results in an increasing demand for high quality software for complex, safety-critical systems. Des...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
The evolution of complex software systems is promoted by software engineering principles and techniques like separation of concerns, encapsulation, stepwise refinement, and reusab...