One of the biggest challenges in cyber-physical system (CPS) design is their intrinsic
complexity, heterogeneity, and multidisciplinary nature. Emerging distributed CPSs integrate …

Code smells are symptoms that something is wrong in the source code. They have been
catalogued and investigated in several programming techniques. These techniques can be …

Traditional software metrics have been used to evaluate the maintainability of software
programs by supporting the identification of code smells. Recently, concern metrics have …

Context: Testing adaptive systems (ASs) and context-aware systems (CASs) is usually more
challenging than testing conventional systems. This is due to their characteristics, such as …

A software product line (SPL) is a set of software systems that share a common and variable
set of features. Software metrics provide basic means to quantify several modularity aspects …

Software systems continue to play an increasingly important role in our daily lives, making
the quality of software systems an extremely important issue. Therefore, a significant amount …

Background: Programming language design is not usually informed by empirical studies. In
other fields similar problems have inspired an evidence-based paradigm of practice. Such a …

Coupling metrics received increased recognition by object-oriented (OO) software
developers when they were found to be indicators of important quality attributes, such as …

Aspect-oriented modeling (AOM) is a relatively recent and very active field of research,
whose application has, however, been limited in practice. AOM is assumed to yield several …

Aspect-Oriented Programming has introduced new types of software faults that may be
systematically tackled with mutation testing. However, such testing approach requires …