A class diagram is one of the most common diagrams used in OOAD to represent the static structure of the system, showing the classes, their attributes, methods, and associations.

To break down the enormous (almost 1300 line) GUI class, into smaller more maintainable pieces, we employed a variety of refactoring strategies. Firstly, we extracted two separate “View” classes, ...

Context: System modeling usually precedes coding activities during software development. Addressing model smells in the upfront can avoid their propagation to the source code. Technical debt (TD) ...

Goal: Investigate whether applying refactoring procedures in UML class diagrams improves the quality of the automatically generated code in terms of TD (code debt) reduction. Method: We perform three ...