It is usually assumed that the implementation of exception handling can be better modularized by the use of aspectoriented programming (AOP). However, the trade-offs involved in u...
A large financial company, struggling with legacy systems that did not interoperate, performed a pilot project to teach software architecture to an enthusiastic application develo...
Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled exper...
—Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect t...
Reid Holmes, Tristan Ratchford, Martin P. Robillar...
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...