Design patterns, acting as recurring solutions to common problems, offer significant benefits such as avoiding unnecessary complexity, and promoting code reuse, maintainability an...
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As part of the evolution of software systems, effort is often invested to discover in what parts of the source code a feature (or other concern) is implemented. Unfortunately, kn...
1 Typical enterprise and military software systems consist of millions of lines of code with complicated dependence on library abstractions. Manually debugging these codes imposes ...
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The Java language lacks the important notions of ownership (an object owns its representation to prevent unwanted aliasing) and immutability (the division into mutable, immutable,...
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Implementing application-specific code conforming to architectural rules and conventions can be tedious. FRED is a tool prototype for architecture-oriented programming that takes ...