Software, Volume 4, Issue 1

Microservices architecture has emerged as a dominant approach for developing scalable and modular software systems, driven by the need for agility and independent deployability. However, designing these architectures poses significant challenges, par...

Software testing ensures the quality and reliability of software products, but manual test case creation is labor-intensive. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is growing interest in unit test creation with LLMs. However, effective...

The unified modelling language (UML) is an industrial de facto standard for system modelling. It consists of a set of graphical notations (also known as diagrams) and has been used widely in many industrial applications. Although the graphical nature...

This paper explores a modular pipeline architecture that integrates ChatGPT, a Large Language Model (LLM), to automate the detection and refactoring of data clumps—a prevalent type of code smell that complicates software maintainability. Data c...

The SOLID-S is an inventory assessing six dimensions of organizational (software) security culture, which is currently available in English. Here, we present the German version, SOLID-SD, along with its translation process and psychometric analysis....

Version Control Systems (VCSs) are used by development teams to manage the collaborative evolution of source code, and there are several widely used industry standard VCSs. In addition to the code files themselves, metadata about the changes made are...