  Architectural erosion is a recurrent problem in software evolution. Despite
this fact, the process is usually tackled in ad hoc ways, without adequate tool
support at the architecture level. To address this shortcoming, this paper
presents a recommendation system -- called DCLfix -- that provides refactoring
guidelines for maintainers when tackling architectural erosion. In short,
DCLfix suggests refactoring recommendations for violations detected after an
architecture conformance process using DCL, an architectural constraint
language
