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ECOOP 1998: Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader pp 60–61Cite as

A Transformational Approach to Structural Design Assessment and Change

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Complexity is a substantive barrier to program and software system recovery, understanding, assessment, and change. We deal with these issues by using a transformational approach to structural design based on design/architectural pattern structures [4]. Our approach allows these structures to be recovered and manipulated. In this way, good and bad patterns in a software system can be found and/or changed though transformations. Such design and architectural structures are used as a basis to assess the design and architectural quality and to structurally build and change the software system.

The work described here has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Information Technology Research Centre of Canada (ITRC), the National Research Council of Brazil (CNPq), and Sybase Inc.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan & Jing Dong

  2. Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Carlos J. P. Lucena

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  1. Paulo S. C. Alencar
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  1. University of Berne, Neubruckstr. 10, CH-3012, Berne, Switzerland

    Serge Demeyer

  2. Softcenter, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

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Alencar, P.S.C., Cowan, D.D., Dong, J., Lucena, C.J.P. (1998). A Transformational Approach to Structural Design Assessment and Change. In: Demeyer, S., Bosch, J. (eds) Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49255-0_10

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