The architecture of many large software systems is rarely documented and if documented it is usually out of date. To support developers maintaining and evolving these systems, an ...
Abstract. Software maintenance is the most expensive activity in software development. Many software companies spent a large amount of cost to maintain the existing software system...
Design patterns are widely recognized as important software development methods. Their use as software understanding tools, though generally acknowledged has been scarcely explore...
The Pia hardware-software co-simulator provides substantial speedups over traditional co-simulation methods by permitting dynamic changes in the level of detail when simulating co...
Redundant code obstructs program understanding and contributes to high maintenance costs. While most experts agree on that, opinions on how serious the problem of redundancies rea...