One of the characteristics of large software systems is that they evolve over time. Evolution patterns include modifications related to the implementation, interfaces and the over...
Ladan Tahvildari, Richard Gregory, Kostas Kontogia...
Software development is a dynamic process where engineers constantly modify and refine systems. As a consequence, system architecture evolves over time. Software architectural ev...
Software evolution research is limited by the amount of information available to researchers: Current version control tools do not store all the information generated by developer...
As more and more open-source software components become available on the internet we need automatic ways to label and compare them. For example, a developer who searches for reusa...
When trying to understand the evolution of a software system it can be useful to visualize the evolution of the system’s architecture. Existing tools for viewing architectural e...