For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written in C, recompilatio...
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Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...
Getting business stakeholders’ goals formulated clearly and project scope defined realistically increases the chance of success for any application development process. As a cons...
Programmers need tools to help explore large software systems when performing software evolution tasks. A variety of tools have been created to improve the effectiveness of such e...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Martin P. Robillar...
The wide diffusion of reliable Internet is pushing two key novelties in the conception of modern software applications: the Software as a Service paradigm and the idea of the Inte...
Luciano Baresi, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Sam Guinea, S...