Within the context of Argentina universities that have computer science degrees in their curricula, one of the major challenges is to teach an introductory programming course for the first semester. The problem appears because the students come with serious deficiencies from their previous education level (secondary schools). Among these deficiencies, we identify their lack of abstraction capabili...Show More
When analyzing legacy code, generating a high-level model of an application helps the developers understand how the application was structured and how the dependencies relate the different software entities. Based on useful properties that the object-oriented paradigm (and their supporting analysis tools) provide, such as UML models, we propose M2K as a methodology (supported by our own tool) that...Show More
During software development, design rules and contracts in the source code are often encoded through regularities, such as API usage protocols, coding idioms and naming conventions. The structural regularities that govern a program can aid in comprehension and maintenance of the application, but are often implicit or undocumented. Tool support for extracting these regularities from the source code...Show More
While the use of components grows in software development, building effective component directories becomes a critical issue as architects need help to search components in repositories. During the life-cycle of component-based software, several tasks, such as construction from scratch or component substitution, would benefit from an efficient component classification and retrieval. In this paper,...Show More
