Many automated techniques of varying accuracy have been developed to help recover the
architecture of a software system from its implementation. However, rigorously assessing …

Software architecture is the heart of web-based software systems determining its
components and their connections. These days, fast release and quick delivery of next …

This paper presents the design, implementation, and usage details of ARCADE, an
extensible workbench for supporting the recovery of software systems' architectures, and for …

Refactoring and, in particular, remodularization operations can be performed to repair the
design of a software system and remove the erosion caused by software evolution. Various …

Oftentimes, during software maintenance the original program modularization decays, thus
reducing its quality. One of the main reasons for such architectural erosion is suboptimal …

Software module clustering is an unsupervised learning method used to cluster software
entities (eg, classes, modules, or files) with similar features. The obtained clusters may be …

Developers have a lot of freedom in writing comments as well as in choosing identifiers and
method names. These are intentional in nature and provide a different relevance of …

Context A software system's structure often degrades due to repetitive maintenance. To
make a sustainable evolution of such systems, it becomes mandatory to improve their …

The new era of information and the needs of our society require continuous change in
software and technology. Changes are produced very quickly and software systems require …

Abstract Changes during software evolution and poor design decisions often lead to
packages that are hard to understand and maintain, because they usually group together …