Improving Software Modularity Using Software Remodularization: Challenges and Opportunities

Long-period maintenance of software often causes the original program modularization to decay, resulting in a degraded quality software. Placement artifacts, namely code files or classes suboptimal manner among packages is one most common this decaying Software remodularization (remodularization) an old reverse engineering approach that helps alleviating issue by improving modularization. However, literature, multitude approaches exists leaving researchers and developers dilemma choosing appropriate criteria. Therefore, paper carries out Systematic Literature Review (SLR) last two decades presents concise information answering different relevant research questions important both field. This considers 54 articles as primary studies.