Redesign for flexibility and maintainability: a case study

In this paper, we analyze software that we inherited from another party. We analyze its architecture and use common design principles to identify critical changes in order to improve its flexibility with respect to a set of planned extensions. We describe flexibility issues that we encountered and h...

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Main Authors: Ackermann, Christopher (Author), Lindvall, Mikael (Author), Dennis, Gregory D. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-10-05T14:44:31Z.
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