Context Reusing a design pattern is not always in the favor of developers. Thus, the code
starts smelling. The presence of “Code Smells” leads to more difficulties for the developers …

Clock-SI is a fully distributed protocol that implements snapshot isolation (SI) for partitioned
data stores. It derives snapshot and commit timestamps from loosely synchronized clocks …

Abstract Component-based-software-development (CBSD) is one of the most recent trends
in the software development industry and its success majorly depends on the quality of the …

Since software refactoring techniques were introduced, the process is commonly applied to
alter the structure of source code. However, there is also increasing popularity in the topic of …

During the execution of a software system, tremendous amounts of data are recorded, and
such data provide valuable information on software runtime behavior analysis. This paper …

Object-oriented applications of significant size are often complex and therefore, costly to
maintain. Indeed, they rely on the concept of class which has low granularity with many …

Restructuring an object-oriented software system into a component-based one allows for a
better understanding of the system and facilitates its future maintenance. A component …

Restructuring an object-oriented software system into a component-based one allows for a
better understanding of the software system and facilitates its future maintenance. A …

Large object-oriented applications have complex and numerous dependencies, and usually
do not have explicit software architectures. Therefore they are hard to maintain, and parts of …

In the literature of software engineering, many approaches have been proposed for the
recovery of software architectures. These approaches propose to group classes into highly …