Context Reusing a design pattern is not always in the favor of developers. Thus, the code
starts smelling. The presence of “Code Smells” leads to more difficulties for the developers …

Code and design smells are poor solutions to recurring implementation and design
problems. They may hinder the evolution of a system by making it hard for software …

Software traceability is a fundamentally important task in software engineering. The need for
automated traceability increases as projects become more complex and as the number of …

作为控制软件复杂性, 提高软件系统质量, 支持软件开发和复用的重要手段之一,
软件体系结构自提出以来, 日益受到软件研究者和实践者的关注, 并发展成为软件工程的一个 …

Software architectures capture the most significant properties and design constraints of
software systems. Thus, modifications to a system that violate its architectural principles can …

Code smell detection is essential to improve software quality, enhancing software
maintainability, and decrease the risk of faults and failures in the software system. In this …

Variability is the ability of a system to be efficiently extended, changed, customised or
configured for use in a particular context. There is an ever-growing demand for variability of …

In 2000, we published an extensive study of existing software architecture description
languages (ADLs), which has served as a useful reference to software architecture …

A distributed system's allocation of software components to hardware nodes (ie, deployment
architecture) can have a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS). For a given system …

Multi-agent systems are claimed to be especially suited to the development of software
systems that are decentralized, can deal flexibly with dynamic conditions, and are open to …