: Software evolves as requirements or technologies change. Tremendous efforts are often needed to support software evolution as evolution may involve reverse engineering and subseq...
Chung-Horng Lung, Qiang Zhao, Hui Xu, Heine Mar, P...
Software inspections are established means of ensuring quality in software engineering. The traditional paper-based inspections are considered too laborious for widespread usage, ...
Abstract. The build architecture of legacy C/C++ software systems, groups program files in directories to represent logical components. The interfaces of these components are loos...
Homayoun Dayani-Fard, Yijun Yu, John Mylopoulos, P...
This paper describes the concept of software adaptation patterns and how they can be used in software adaptation of serviceoriented architectures. The patterns are described in te...
Hassan Gomaa, Koji Hashimoto, Minseong Kim, Sam Ma...
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...