This paper applies Lehman's theory of software evolution to analyse the characteristics of web-based applications and identifies the essences and incidents that cause difficu...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
During the last 25 years the complexity and functionality of software systems has increased dramatically. Software systems have to be updated and restructured continuously [22]. I...
Integrated Development Environments supporting software and model evolution have to deal with the problem of maintaining coherence between code and model despite changes which may...
Paolo Bottoni, Francesco Parisi-Presicce, Simone P...