Software evolution is the most costly and time consuming software development activity. Yet software engineering research is predominantly concerned with initial development. MORA...
Gregory D. Abowd, Ashok K. Goel, Dean F. Jerding, ...
This paper introduces a framework for security-oriented software service composition and evolution. Key building blocks of the framework are a semantic model for specifying the se...
For there to be order-of-magnitude improvements in the quality of software and the productivity of software development and evolution there needs to be a much more strategic appro...
We present a method to detect and visualize evolution patterns in C++ source code. Our method consists of three steps. First, we extract an annotated syntax tree (AST) from each v...
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...