Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
— Software maintenance tools for program analysis and refactoring rely on a meta-model capturing the relevant properties of programs. However, what is considered relevant may cha...
Software design patterns are documented best practice solutions that can be applied to reoccurring problems. Although well documented, there are often opportunities to apply them ...
An approach to automatically identify the stereotypes of all the methods in an entire system is presented. A taxonomy for object-oriented class method stereotypes is given that un...
Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Ma...
Understanding function signature change properties and evolution patterns is important for researchers concerned with alleviating signature change impacts, understanding software ...