UML sequence diagrams are commonly used to represent object interactions in software systems. This work considers the problem of extracting UML sequence diagrams from existing cod...
Abstract. An architectural bad smell is a commonly (although not always intentionally) used set of architectural design decisions that negatively impacts system lifecycle propertie...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
Code-based metrics such as coupling and cohesion are used to measure a system's structural complexity. But dealing with large systems--those consisting of several millions of...
During the last 25 years the complexity and functionality of software systems has increased dramatically. Software systems have to be updated and restructured continuously [22]. I...
Two or more components (e.g., objects, modules, or programs) interoperate when they exchange data, such as XML data. Using Application Programming Interface (API) calls exported b...