Literature review studies are essential and form the foundation for any type of research.
They serve as the point of departure for those seeking to understand a research topic, as …

Context: Architecture of a software system represents the key design decisions and therefore
its quality plays an important role to keep the software maintainable. Code smells are …

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

The most common use of data visualization is to minimize the complexity for proper
understanding. A graph is one of the most commonly used representations for …

Go is a statically typed and compiled language, which has been widely used to develop
robust and popular projects. As other systems, these projects change over time. Developers …

Software architecture is defined as the structural construction, design decisions
implementation, evolution and knowledge sharing mechanisms of a system. Software …

Software architectural changes involve more than one module or component and are
complex to analyze compared to local code changes. Development teams aiming to review …

For various reasons, such as new requirements, architecture refactoring, and bug fixing,
software projects often evolve to yield better quality and performance. All changes produced …

Maintaining large legacy systems often requires understanding their architecture. This is
important since legacy system architecture decay over time and architecture violations may …

Understanding the evolution of a project is crucial in reverse-engineering, auditing and
otherwise understanding existing software. Visualizing how software evolves can be …