The longevity of evolving software systems largely depends on their resilience to
architectural design degradation. It is often assumed that code anomalies are always key …

Code anomalies are symptoms of software maintainability problems, particularly harmful
when contributing to architectural degradation. Despite the existence of many automated …

Code anomalies are likely to be critical to the systems' maintainability when they are related
to architectural problems. Many tools have been developed to support the identification of …

Several projects have been discontinued in the history of the software industry due to the
presence of software architecture problems. The identification of such problems in source …

As software systems are maintained, their architecture modularity often degrades through
architectural erosion and drift. More directly, however, the modularity of software …

Architectural conformance checking is the process of verifying whether a given software
implementation conforms to the rules and decisions in an architectural model. Different …

Several projects have been discontinued in the history of the software industry due to the
presence of software architecture problems. The identification of such problems in source …

During software development, maintenance and evolution, we can assess the quality of
code, design and architecture to capture hints of possible problems and face them as soon …

Refactoring tends to avoid the early deviation of a program from its intended architecture
design. However, there is little knowledge about whether the manifestation of code smells in …

Constant changes cause software architectures to degenerate. In organizations where
developers are involved in the maintenance and evolution, system degeneration is even …