Impact analysis -- determining the potential effects of changes on a software system -- plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance, regression testi...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James La...
Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to promote better software changeability than objectoriented (OO) techniques, there is no empiri...
Phil Greenwood, Thiago T. Bartolomei, Eduardo Figu...
Many of the existing techniques for impact set computation in change propagation and regression testing are approximate for the sake of efficiency. A way to improve precision is ...
The principle of separation of concerns has long been used by software engineers to manage the complexity of software system development. Programming languages help software engin...
Robert J. Walker, Elisa L. A. Baniassad, Gail C. M...
Evolving software-intensive systems from one consistent state to another is a challenging activity due to the intricate inter-dependencies among the components. In this paper, we ...