The class hierarchy is an important aspect of object-oriented software development. Design and maintenance of such a hierarchy is a difficult task that is often accomplished witho...
Software architectures have the potential to substantially improve the development and evolution of large, complex, multi-lingual, multi-platform, long-running systems. However, i...
Nenad Medvidovic, David S. Rosenblum, Richard N. T...
—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...
A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
Kostas Kontogiannis, Renato de Mori, Morris Bernst...
We detect design patterns in legacy code combining static and dynamic analyses. The analyses do not depend on coding or naming conventions. We classify potential pattern instances...