Large software systems have a rich development history. Mining certain aspects of this rich history can reveal interesting insights into the system and its structure. Previous app...
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Non-Functional requirements (or quality requirements, NFRs) such as confidentiality, performance and timeliness are often crucial to a software system. Our NFRFramework treats NF...
A Software Development Process for a certain enterprise and/or a certain project will usually integrate elements from a variety of existing process models, comprising generic stand...
Michael Gnatz, Frank Marschall, Gerhard Popp, Andr...
Most online evolution of application depends on its runtime environment. This paper addresses how to support online evolution by application server, which is considered as third k...