Abstract. Design defects are poor design choices resulting in a hard-tomaintain software, hence their detection and correction are key steps of a disciplined software process aimed...
Inspections can be used to identify defects in software artifacts. In this way, inspection methods help to improve software quality, especially when used early in software develop...
Guilherme Travassos, Forrest Shull, Michael Freder...
Although processor design verification consumes ever-increasing resources, many design defects still slip into production silicon. In a few cases, such bugs have caused expensive...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Abhishek Tiwari, Josep Torrella...
Maintenance is recognised as the most difficult and expansive activity of the software development process. Numerous techniques and processes have been proposed to ease the mainte...
Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...