— Software evolution and update play a vital role in software engineering. It has many advantages, such as improving the efficiency of programming, reducing the cost of maintena...
Modern software has to evolve to meet the needs of stakeholders; but the nature and scope of this evolution is difficult to anticipate and manage. In this paper, we examine techn...
Abstract. Software systems should evolve in order to respond to changing client requirements and their evolving environments. But unfortunately, the evolution of legacy application...
Simon Allier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Salah Sadou, St&...
In this paper, we describe a framework for the computeraided evolution of the designs of object-oriented software systems. Evolution mechanisms are software structures that prepar...
The success of an object-oriented software development project highly depends on how well the designers can capture the Hot Spots of the application domain, that is, those aspects...