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Chris Karanikolas currently collaborates with the department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese. Chris does research in Information Science, Programming Languages, Software maintainability assessment and Software Engineering. His most recent publication is 'Simulating Software Evolution to Evaluate the Reliability of Early Decision-Making among Design Alternatives towards Maintainability'.
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Critical decisions among design alternatives with regards to maintainability arise early in the software design cycle. Existing comparison models relayed on the structural evolution of the used design patterns are suitable to support such decisions. However, their effectiveness on predicting maintenance effort is usually verified on a limited numbe...
Selecting between different design options is a crucial decision for object-oriented software developers that affects code quality characteristics. Conventionally developers use their experience to make such decisions, which leads to suboptimal results regarding code quality. In this article, a formal model for providing early estimates of quality...
