The usefulness of design patterns in forward engineering is already well-known and several tools provide support for their application in the development of software systems. Whil...
Understanding a software system by just analyzing the structure of the system reveals only half of the picture, since the structure tells us only how the code is working but not w...
In this paper, we analyze the use of UML as a starting point to go from design issues to end of production testing of complex embedded systems. The first point is the analysis of ...
Andrea Baldini, Alfredo Benso, Paolo Prinetto, Ser...
In the context of software maintenance, legacy software systems are continuously re-engineered in order to correct errors, provide new functionality, or port them into modern plat...
The recovery of software architecture is a first important step towards re-engineering a software system. Architecture recovery usually involves clustering. The problem with curre...