A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
Kostas Kontogiannis, Renato de Mori, Morris Bernst...
Software can be considered a live entity, as it undergoes many alterations throughout its lifecycle. Furthermore, developers do not usually retain a good design in favor of adding...
Marios Fokaefs, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chat...
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be...
Iterations are time-boxed periods with an intended outcome that is often a set of implemented requirements. Iterations are part of most common software development lifecycle model...
Despite the large research efforts in the SW–DSM community, this technology has not yet been adapted widely for significant codes beyond benchmark suites. One of the reasons co...