In the lifecycle of a software product line (SPL), incremental generalization is usually required to extend the variability of existing core assets to support the new or changed ap...
As a software system evolves, its architecture will drift. System changes are often done without considering their effects on the system structure. These changes often introduce s...
John B. Tran, Michael W. Godfrey, Eric H. S. Lee, ...
To maintain and understand large applications, it is crucial to know their architecture. The first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly rep...
As development techniques, paradigms and platforms evolve far more quickly than domain applications, software modernization and migration, is a constant challenge to software engin...
Although object-oriented programming techniques have evolved into an accepted technology with recognized benefits for software development, profound investigations of qualitative a...