Domain-Driven Design in Practice: A Mining Study of Maintenance and Evolution in Open-Source Repositories (opens in new tab)

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an influential software development methodology that structures software around business domain complexity through tactical building blocks such as Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates, and Repositories. Despite its prominence in software engineering, large-scale empirical evidence on how DDD is practiced, how it evolves, and how it relates to software maintenance quality in open-source projects remains scarce. This ...