—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
—The actor programming model offers a promising model for developing reliable parallel and distributed code. Actors provide flexibility and scalability: local execution may be i...
Steven Lauterburg, Mirco Dotta, Darko Marinov, Gul...
Within a large, object-oriented software system it is common to partition the classes into a set of packages, which implicitly serve as a set of coarsely-grained logical design un...
Many software systems rely on third-party components during their build process. Because the components are constantly evolving, quality assurance demands that developers perform ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...