Software often needs to be modified for accommodating requirements changes through the software life cycle. To deal with several accidental requirements changes related to softwa...
Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products. This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before ...
With the success of model-driven development as well as component-based and service-oriented systems, models of software architecture are key artefacts in the development process. ...
Abstract. Design defects are poor design choices resulting in a hard-tomaintain software, hence their detection and correction are key steps of a disciplined software process aimed...
Programmers rely on programming idioms, design patterns, and workaround techniques to make up for missing programming language support. Evolving languages often address frequently ...
Peter Pirkelbauer, Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustru...