Software development teams exchange source code in shared repositories. These repositories are kept consistent by having developers follow a commit policy, such as "Program e...
Jan Wloka, Barbara G. Ryder, Frank Tip, Xiaoxia Re...
One claimed benefit of deploying design patterns is facilitating maintainers to perform anticipated changes. However, it is not at all obvious that the relevant design patterns de...
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...
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
During its lifetime, embedded systems go through multiple changes to their runtime architecture. That is, threads, processes, and processor are added or removed to/from the softwa...