In reengineering an object-oriented system we want to benefit from the expertise developed in earlier efforts. It is therefore essential to have a way to communicate expertise at ...
— Team politics complicate software projects. They cause internal conflicts that can not only cost a software team time and money, but may also detract from the needs of the prod...
Jeremy T. Barksdale, Eric D. Ragan, D. Scott McCri...
Crosscutting concerns can hinder maintainability of a design because they do not adhere to a system's underlying modular structure. Developers, therefore, may wish to refacto...
Eduardo Figueiredo, Jon Whittle, Alessandro F. Gar...
Code smells are characteristics of software that indicate that code may have a design problem. Code smells have been proposed as a way for programmers to recognize the need for re...
Modeling and analysis is indispensable in engineering. To be safe and effective, a modeling method requires a language with a validated semantics; feature-rich, easy-to-use, depen...