The documentation of a program often falls behind the evolution of the program source files. When this happens it may be attractive to shift the documentation mode from updating ...
Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...
: Software evolves as requirements or technologies change. Tremendous efforts are often needed to support software evolution as evolution may involve reverse engineering and subseq...
Chung-Horng Lung, Qiang Zhao, Hui Xu, Heine Mar, P...
Text-based approaches to the analysis of software evolution are attractive because of the fine-grained, token-level comparisons they can generate. The use of such approaches has, ...
Austen Rainer, Peter C. R. Lane, James A. Malcolm,...
Industrial software projects are not based on a top-down development process relying on refinement but use a more iterative and incremental approach with respect to changing requ...