: Today software systems have to face frequent requests for change during their whole lifetime. It is very important that they can adapt to the frequently changing needs and are fl...
It is well known that software maintenance and evolution are expensive activities, both in terms of invested time and money. Reverse engineering activities support the obtainment ...
Architectural patterns and styles represent important design decisions and thus are valuable abstractions for architecture recovery. Recognizing them is a challenge because styles...
Modeling object-oriented applications using collaborations and roles is now well accepted. Collaboration-based or role-based designs decompose an application into tasks performed ...
Abstract: Software clustering is an established approach to automatic architecture recovery. It groups components that are in some way similar to each other. Usually, the similarit...