Changeability (also called evolvability) is an essential property of software. Software change is the foundation for both new software development and legacy software maintenance, ...
Software services are being promoted as the next big step forward in software engineering.. Inevitably, both service vendor and service client programs will require maintenance. W...
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...
Claims concerning the maintainability of object oriented software usually refer to encapsulation and inheritance mechanisms. However, if objects are perceived only from the code l...
Roland Mittermeir, Helfried Pirker, Dominik Rauner...
— Software evolution and update play a vital role in software engineering. It has many advantages, such as improving the efficiency of programming, reducing the cost of maintena...