Recently, more attention is paid to the researches and practices on how to use software architecture in software maintenance and evolution to reduce their complexity and cost. The ...
Design patterns are a standard means to create large software systems. However, with standard object-oriented techniques, typical implementations of such patterns are not themselv...
An important element of understanding a software code base is to identify the repetitive patterns of code it contains and how these evolve over time. Some patterns are useful to t...
The benefits of impact analysis in the maintenance and evolution of software systems are well known, and many forms of impact analysis, over different software life cycle objects...
Software evolution is an ongoing process carried out with the aim of extending base applications either for adding new functionalities or for adapting software to changing environm...