Modeling software components from multiple perspectives provides complementary views of a software system and enables sophisticated analyses of its functionality. A software compon...
As part of a long term project aiming at empowering software maintainers with knowledge based tools we conducted an empirical study on the knowledge they use when doing maintenanc...
Maria Fernanda N. Ramal, Ricardo de Moura Meneses,...
Academic research sometimes suffers from the “ivory tower” problem: some ideas that sound good in theory do not necessarily work well in practice. An example of research that ...
Joseph E. Hollingsworth, Lori Blankenship, Bruce W...
While software architecture has become an increasingly important research topic in recent years, insufficient attention has been paid to methods for evaluation of these architectu...
Rick Kazman, Leonard J. Bass, Mike Webb, Gregory D...
The metrics formulated to date for characterizing the modularization quality of object-oriented software have considered module and class to be synonymous concepts. But, a typical ...
Santonu Sarkar, Avinash C. Kak, Girish Maskeri Ram...