We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
During software evolution a collection of related artifacts with different representations are created. Some of these are composed of structured data (e.g., analysis data), some c...
Andrian Marcus, Andrea De Lucia, Jane Huffman Haye...
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...
: Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) and Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) are solutions to support software evolution by decomposing a software system into conc...
Nicolas Pessemier, Lionel Seinturier, Laurence Duc...
To understand the evolution of software researchers have developed a plethora of tools to parse, model, and analyze the history of systems. Despite their usefulness, a common down...