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...
Most design recovery approaches start from analysing source code. Nonetheless, it is very difficult to get adequate design information only depending on source code. Additional av...
Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for overcoming interoperability issues and especially for extending the IT support of business processes to dev...
Christian Mauro, Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcm...
Refactorings are behavior-preserving program transformations that automate design evolution in object-oriented applications. Three kinds of design evolution are: schema transformat...
Evidence suggests that as software ages the original realizations of design patterns remain in place, and participants in design pattern realizations accumulate “grime” – no...