Design defects affect project quality and hinder development and maintenance.
Consequently, experts need to minimize these defects in software systems. A promising …

Refactoring is an important Software Engineering technique for improving the structure of a
program after it has been written. Refactorings improve the maintainability, readability, and …

Keeping a software system conformant with a desired architecture and consistent with good
design principles is a recurring task during the software evolution process. Deviations from …

The addition of support for genericity to mainstream programming languages has a notable
influence in refactoring tools. This also applies to the JAVA programming language. Those …

As this is a luncheon talk, it should contain some humor but there is really nothing very funny
about some of the European computer developments which are offering competition to …

En este capıtulo se presentan los conceptos principales y la terminologıa relacionados con
esta tesis. En concreto se describirán brevemente los siguientes conceptos: defectos de …

As the demand for customer specific software applications remains growing, there is a need
for software developers to explore new ideas that allow an efficient description of potential …

La identificación de defectos de diseño en entidades de código es una de las tareas del
proceso de mantenimiento del software que sirve para evaluar la calidad de un sistema. Un …

La amplia mayorıa de entornos de desarrollo han incluido funcionalidad para refactorizar el
software. Sin embargo, aún no ha sido objetivo fundamental de este tipo de herramientas …

Today, documents of different programming languages can be involved in the
implementation of a single software application. These applications are called multi …