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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 10 months ago
POLUS: A POwerful Live Updating System
This paper presents POLUS, a software maintenance tool capable of iteratively evolving running software into newer versions. POLUS's primary goal is to increase the dependabi...
Haibo Chen, Jie Yu, Rong Chen, Binyu Zang, Pen-Chu...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
SLE
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Language Evolution in Practice: The History of GMF
In consequence of changing requirements and technological progress, software languages are subject to change. The changes affect the language’s specification, which in turn a...
Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Daniel Ratiu, Guido Wachs...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Identifying Architectural Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Detecting increases in feature coupling using regression tests
Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...
Olivier Giroux, Martin P. Robillard