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Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 20 weeks of full time studies. Object-Oriented frameworks, OO frameworks, have been discussed over a long period of time, that when introducing Object-Oriented frameworks, the defect-density will decrease and the quality of software will increase. Capgemini had developed a framework that had been in the organization for nine years. Since then, the framework has been reengineered several times to meet the continuously changing requirements of the software systems the framework supports. My work was to develop a new framework to make the maintainability and evolution of the framework easier while not compromising the quality of the framework or the applications built on it. The new framework that