Software evolution plays a key role in the overall lifecycle of a software system. In this phase, software developers extend the capabilities and functionality of the system to me...
Andrejs Jermakovics, Marco Scotto, Giancarlo Succi
When analyzing the evolution history of a software project, we wish to develop results that generalize across projects. One approach is to analyze design patterns, permitting char...
Design patterns, acting as recurring solutions to common problems, offer significant benefits such as avoiding unnecessary complexity, and promoting code reuse, maintainability an...
Maria Mouratidou, Vassilios Lourdas, Alexander Cha...
A software reconfiguration pattern is a solution to a problem in component-based software systems where the configuration needs to be updated while the system is operational. It d...
—Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper we study the evolution of seven sizable open...