Abstract—During software development, design rules and contracts in the source code are often encoded through regularities, such as API usage protocols, coding idioms and naming ...
Angela Lozano, Andy Kellens, Kim Mens, Gabriela Ar...
Programmers rely on programming idioms, design patterns, and workaround techniques to make up for missing programming language support. Evolving languages often address frequently ...
Peter Pirkelbauer, Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustru...
Architectural patterns and styles represent important design decisions and thus are valuable abstractions for architecture recovery. Recognizing them is a challenge because styles...
The evolution of complex software systems is promoted by software engineering principles and techniques like separation of concerns, encapsulation, stepwise refinement, and reusab...
This paper presents a flexible way in which a deisgn model extracted from Java programs can remain unified with the source code. Each entity declaration and reference in the Java ...