Frameworks and libraries change their APIs during evolution. Migrating an application to the new API is tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and techn...
UML diagrams have become increasingly important in the engineering and reengineering processes for software systems. Of particular interest are UML class diagrams whose purpose is...
While code understanding is the primary program comprehension activity, it is quite challenging to recognize the application requirements from code, since they have usually been o...
Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, Paul G. Sorenso...
Code-based metrics such as coupling and cohesion are used to measure a system's structural complexity. But dealing with large systems--those consisting of several millions of...
The activity of reengineering and maintaining large legacy systems involves the use of design recovery es to produce abstractions that facilitate the understanding of the system. ...