Software systems have to be changed continuously and evolutionarily throughout the whole time of their development and usage. Meanwhile, the software systems have to remain flexi...
As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...
—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
Requirements Evolution is considered one of the most critical issues in developing computer-based systems. Despite the recognised role of requirements in Software Engineering, Req...
Recent research suggests that large software systems should have a documented system architecture. One form of documentation that may help describe the structure of software syste...