Software is usually complex and always intangible. In practice, the development and
maintenance processes are time-consuming activities mainly because software complexity …

Circular dependencies between software artefacts are widely considered as problematic.
However, empirical studies of Java programs have shown that most programs are riddled …

Software re-modularization is an old preoccupation of reverse engineering research. The
advantages of a well structured or modularized system are well known. Yet after so much …

In this paper, a literature review and classification scheme for selected software engineering
researches is presented. The study shows that an increasing volume of software …

Background Empirical evidence shows that dependency cycles among software
components are pervasive in real-life software systems, although such cycles are known to …

When reengineering software systems, maintainers should be able to assess and compare
multiple change scenarios for a given goal, so as to choose the most pertinent one. Because …

A layered software architecture helps in understanding the role of software entities (eg
packages or classes) in a system and, hence, the impact of changes on these entities …

Many design guidelines state that a software system architecture should avoid cycles
between its packages. Yet such cycles appear again and again in many programs. We …

A large software system contains millions of lines of source code, and the development often
involves many developers over a long period. How to understand and analyze its complex …

Context Accurately relating code authorship to commit frequency over multiple software
revisions is a complex task. Most of the navigation tools found in common source code …