As systems evolve, they become harder to understand because the implementation of concepts (e.g. business rules) becomes less coherent. To preserve source code comprehensibility, ...
Large industrial legacy systems are challenges of reverseengineering activities. Reverse-engineering approaches use text-search tools based on regular expressions or work on prese...
Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
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Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...
Computer architecture is often taught by having students use software to design and simulate individual pieces of a computer processor. We have developed a method that will take t...