Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) aims to ease maintenance and promote reuse of software components by separating core concerns from crosscutting concerns: aspects of a program th...
Many coupling measures have been proposed in the context of object-oriented (OO) systems. In addition, several studies have highlighted the complexity of using dependency analysis...
The selection of software architecture style is an important decision of design stage, and has a significant impact on various system quality attributes. To determine software arc...
In component-based development (CBD), component is the basic unit for reuse and it provides a relatively coarse-grained functionality. A component typically consists of several re...
Component recovery supports program understanding, architecture recovery, and re-use. Among the best known techniques for detection of re-usable objects (related global variables ...