Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system's arc...
Source code search is an important activity for programmers working on a change task to a software system. As part of a larger project to improve tool support for finding informa...
Design patterns document expert design experience in software system development. They have been applied in many existing software systems. However, pattern information is general...
Extensibility and maintainability of software becomes more an issue as the complexity of the software development process rises. Design patterns in the sense of Gamma et al. [3] a...
The evolution of complex software systems is promoted by software engineering principles and techniques like separation of concerns, encapsulation, stepwise refinement, and reusab...