Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...
Incremental software change adds new functionality to software. It is the foundation of software evolution, maintenance, iterative development, agile development, and other softwa...
Jonathan Buckner, Joseph Buchta, Maksym Petrenko, ...
: Traceability of various artifacts created during the development of software systems plays an important role in software evolution. Subsequent changes to artifacts must be traced...
Software maintenanceand evolutionare the dominantactivities in the software lifecycle. Modularization can separate design decisions and allow them to be independently evolved, but...
William G. Griswold, Jimmy J. Yuan, Yoshikiyo Kato
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...