When trying to understand the evolution of a software system it can be useful to visualize the evolution of the system’s architecture. Existing tools for viewing architectural e...
Large multi-platform, multi-million lines of codes software systems evolve to cope with new platform or to meet user ever changing needs. While there has been several studies focu...
Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenais, P. Bachand, J. S. S...
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...
A challenge of existing program comprehension approaches is to provide consistent and flexible representations for software systems. Maintainers have to match their mental models ...
The biggest challenge facing software developers today is how to gracefully evolve complex software systems in the face of changing requirements. We clearly need software systems t...