A design pattern encapsulates the knowledge of object-oriented designers into re-usable artifacts. A design pattern is a descriptive device that fosters software design re-use. Th...
Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer...
Many reverse-engineering tools have been developed to detract representations from source code. Yet, most of these tools completely ignore recovery of the all-important rationale ...
In order to support the maintenance of object-oriented software systems, the quality of their design must be evaluated using adequate quantification means. In spite of the curren...
Design rules express constraints on the behavior and structure of a program. These rules can help ensure that a program follows a set of established practices, and avoids certain ...
In distributed software development, two sorts of dependencies can arise. The structure of the software system itself can create dependencies between software elements, while the ...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Jon Froehlich, Paul Douri...