Quantum Computing is becoming an increasingly mature area, with a simultaneous
escalation of investment in many sectors. Quantum technology will revolutionize all the …

Digital transformation is changing the attitudes of companies to create value for customers
and, this requires making alterations in their working models, organizational structure, and …

This paper presents our experience in teaching a maintenance programming course with
the aim of bridging the gap between theory and practice, a recurring issue in previous …

Background: Refactoring is changing a software system without affecting the software
functionality. The current researchers aim i to identify the appropriate method (s) or class (s) …

Large enterprises spend a large portion of their Information Technology (IT) budget on
maintaining their legacy systems. Legacy systems modernization projects are a catalyst for …

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are considered the backbone of global
economy, but they often face cyberthreats which threaten their financial stability and …

One of the main aims in the layered software architecture is to divide the code into different
layers so that each layer contains related modules and serves its upper layers. Although …

Context: The modernization of a legacy software system is a reality of companies that need
to improve their systems. Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) is a model-driven …

Many industrial sectors are dependent on software-based systems on the long run and
many software systems tend to live much longer than initially expected. Beyond update and …

A known problem in legacy systems is the presence of crosscutting concerns in their
architecture hampering and increasing the maintenance costs. A possible solution for that is …