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...
Software is an increasing and important part of many products and systems. Software, hardware, and system level components have been developed and produced following separate proc...
Our research is driven by the motivation that change must be put in the center, if one wants to understand the complex processes of software evolution. We built a toolset named Sp...
Abstract. Modern Web applications are full-fledged, complex software systems. Therefore, the development of Web applications requires a methodologically sound engineering approach ...
In object oriented programming, the functionalities of a system result from the interactions (message exchanges) among the objects allocated by the system. While designing object ...