: Detection of instances of design patterns is useful for the software maintenance. This paper proposes a new framework for the automated detection of instances of design patterns....
A number of standalone tools are designed to help developers understand software systems. These tools operate at different levels of abstraction, from low level source code to sof...
Ivan T. Bowman, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Hol...
Crosscutting concerns can hinder maintainability of a design because they do not adhere to a system's underlying modular structure. Developers, therefore, may wish to refacto...
Eduardo Figueiredo, Jon Whittle, Alessandro F. Gar...
Software design patterns are documented best practice solutions that can be applied to reoccurring problems. Although well documented, there are often opportunities to apply them ...
Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system's arc...