Architecture Anti-Patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles

17 August 2023 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 22 August 2024I thoroughly enjoyed Architecture Anti-Patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles, by Mo, Cai, Kazman, Xiao, and Feng. It’s worth reading in its entirety if you are interested in their methods, but you could also just get value from reviewing the description of the architectural anti-patterns or reading the first 2 pages (which I further summarize below). Abstract In large-scale software systems, error-prone or change-prone files rarely stand alone. They are typically architecturally connected and their connections usually exhibit architecture problems causing the propagation of error-proneness or change-proneness. In this paper, we …

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