In this paper, we present an approach that examines the evolution of code stored in source control repositories. The technique identifies Change Clusters, which can help managers...
Jay Kothari, Ali Shokoufandeh, Spiros Mancoridis, ...
Incremental changes add new functionality and properties to software. They are the core of software evolution, maintenance, iterative development, agile development, and similar s...
Humans will have to live with software for a long time. As demonstrated by the Y2K problem, computer professionals used a wrong time scale when thinking about software. Large soft...
Software continually changes due to performance improvements, new requirements, bug fixes, and adaptation to a changing operational environment. Common changes include modificatio...
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead Jr., Jennifer Beva...
Software is changing and software evolution is going to change with it. In considering software and the problems of software evolution today we make the tacit assumption that we c...