Code and design smells are recurring design problems in software systems that must be identified to avoid their possible negative consequences on development and maintenance. Conse...
Delivering increasingly complex software-reliant systems demands better ways to manage the long-term effects of shortterm expedients. The technical debt metaphor is gaining signif...
Nanette Brown, Yuanfang Cai, Yuepu Guo, Rick Kazma...
The need for a design language that is rigorous but accessible and intuitive is often at odds with the formal and mathematical nature of languages used for analysis. UML and Petri ...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Abstract. Software systems are becoming more and more part of human life influencing organizational and social activities. This introduces the need of considering the design of a ...