One of the main goals of design patterns is to design for change. Many design patterns leave some room for future changes and evolutions. The application of design patterns leads ...
Design patterns describe good solutions to common and recurring problems. The applications of design patterns may vary in different layouts, which pose challenges for recovering a...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
The use of design patterns in a software system can provide strong indications about the rationale behind the system’s design. As a result, automating the detection of design pa...
Crosscutting concerns consist in software system features having the implementation spread across modules as tangled and scattered code. In many cases, these crosscutting concerns...
Lerina Aversano, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...