Context. Although research in software engineering largely seeks to improve the practices
and products of software development, many practices are based upon codification of expert …

Antipatterns are poor design choices that are conjectured to make object-oriented systems
harder to maintain. We investigate the impact of antipatterns on classes in object-oriented …

Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems
hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change …

Many different factors influence the quality of software systems. One factor is the use of
design patterns. In this paper we survey the literature for the existing empirical evidence on …

Design patterns are important in object-oriented programming because they offer design
motifs, elegant solutions to recurrent design problems, which improve the quality of software …

Software systems accumulate technical debt (TD) when short-term goals in software
development are traded for long-term goals (eg, quick-and-dirty implementation to reach a …

Design patterns describe good solutions to common and recurring problems in program
design. The solutions are design motifs which software engineers imitate and introduce in …

Java 8 retrofitted lambda expressions, a core feature of functional programming, into a
mainstream object-oriented language with an imperative paradigm. However, we do not …

Stability refers to a software system's resistance to the “ripple effect”, ie, propagation of
changes. In this paper, we investigate the stability of classes that participate in …

Software" design patterns" seek to package proven solutions to design problems in a form
that makes it possible to find, adapt, and reuse them. A common claim is that a design based …