Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
Traceability helps stakeholders to understand the relationships that exist between software artifacts created during a software development project. For example, the evolution of ...
Evolution of existing large telecommunications software currently became an important issue. Efficient methods are needed to componentize existing software identify existing compo...
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...
IS Architecture emerges as a result of a sequence of IS project implementations. The architecture that emerges can be viewed as a network of software components linked by their in...