Self-adaptive software continually evaluates and modifies its own behavior to meet changing demands. One of the key issues in constructing such software is that of planning when a...
Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
Ciaran O'Reilly, Philip J. Morrow, David W. Bustar...
Large scale distributed systems are becoming of paramount importance, due to the evolution of technology and to the interest of market. Their development, however, is not yet supp...
Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vig...
Reverse engineering and software evolution research has been focused mostly on analyzing single software systems. However, rarely a project exists in isolation; instead, projects ...
— The paper presents an approach that combines conceptual and evolutionary techniques to support change impact analysis in source code. Information Retrieval (IR) is used to deri...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk,...