Traditionally, software models are associated with development and maintenance related activities. This paper demonstrates that models also serve a vital purpose in supporting the...
A large number of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have been investigating whic...
As software systems evolve over a series of releases, it becomes important to know which components show repeated need for maintenance. Deterioration of a single component manifes...
Catherine Stringfellow, C. D. Amory, Dileep Potnur...
Software evolution plays a key role in the overall lifecycle of a software system. In this phase, software developers extend the capabilities and functionality of the system to me...
Andrejs Jermakovics, Marco Scotto, Giancarlo Succi
Component-based software development approach is based on the idea to develop software systems by selecting appropriate off-the-shelf components and then to assemble them with a w...