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ASWEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Studying Software Evolution for Taming Software Complexity
—Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper we study the evolution of seven sizable open...
Steve D. Suh, Iulian Neamtiu
WCRE
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Discovering New Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems
Modern software has to evolve to meet the needs of stakeholders; but the nature and scope of this evolution is difficult to anticipate and manage. In this paper, we examine techn...
Stéphane Vaucher, Houari A. Sahraoui, Jean ...
OOPSLA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Software evolution and the moving picture metaphor
Software systems evolve over time. Currently we do not do a good job of documenting this evolution. This essay discusses the need to better document software evolution and introdu...
Mark Mahoney
IWPC
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Understanding Change-Proneness in OO Software through Visualization
During software evolution, adaptive, and corrective maintenance are common reasons for changes. Often such changes cluster around key components. It is therefore important to anal...
James M. Bieman, Anneliese Amschler Andrews, Helen...
JIPS
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
A Dynamic Approach to Estimate Change Impact using Type of Change Propagation
Software evolution is an ongoing process carried out with the aim of extending base applications either for adding new functionalities or for adapting software to changing environm...
Chetna Gupta, Yogesh Singh, Durg Singh Chauhan