Defining and continuous checking of structural program dependencies
Michael Eichberg, Sven Kloppenburg, Karl Klose, Mira Mezini · 2008
Dependencies between program elements need to be modeled from different perspectives reflecting architectural, design, and implementation level decisions. To avoid erosion of the intended structure of the code, it is necessary to explicitly codify these different perspectives on the permitted dependencies and to detect violations continuously and incrementally as software evolves.