Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
Since the publication of the Design Patterns book, a large number of design patterns have been identified and codified. Unfortunately, these patterns are mostly organised in an ad...
This paper discusses the use of design patterns during the transition phase from analysis to design of object-oriented systems. Pattern mining, which is the process of finding and...