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Many authors have implied dependency cycles are widespread among the classes of object-oriented software systems. Proponents of the design principle Avoid cyclic dependencies amon...
In this paper we investigate factors of the testability of object-oriented software systems. The starting point is given by a study of the literature to obtain both an initial mod...
Abstract. Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for ...
Successful software systems must be prepared to evolve or they will die. Although object-oriented software systems are built to last, over time they degrade as much as any legacy s...
In the last years, as object-oriented software systems became more and more complex, the need of having tools that help us to understand and to assess the quality of their design ...
— Software evolution and update play a vital role in software engineering. It has many advantages, such as improving the efficiency of programming, reducing the cost of maintena...