Evidence suggests that as software ages the original realizations of design patterns remain in place, and participants in design pattern realizations accumulate “grime” – no...
Capturing and using design rationale is becoming a hot topic for software architects, as architectural design decisions are now considered first class entities that should be reco...
A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on–going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not struct...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
In the context of open source development or software evolution, developers are often faced with test suites which have been developed with no apparent rationale and which may nee...
Abstract. In this paper, we report on the development of a methodology for the evolution of software towards new architectures. In our approach, we represent source code as graphs....
Rui Correia, Carlos M. P. Matos, Reiko Heckel, Moh...