Changes to a software system during implementation and maintenance can cause the architecture of a system to deviate from its documented architecture. If design documents are to be useful, maintenance programmers must be able to easily evaluate how closely the documents conform to the code they are meant to describe. Software architecture recovery, which deals with the extraction and analysis o...

The notion of patterns has been used in many different disciplines, and the software industry is no exception. There are many books written, academic research done and practical examples available of where patterns have assisted in constructing better software solutions. Patterns have been defined in the areas of software design, architectural design, processes, and there are even cognitive pat...