ifferent abstraction levels, resulting in isolated `information silos'. An increasing number of task-specific software tools aim to support developers, but this often results ...
Software systems have become more complex, with myriad features and multiple functionalities. A major challenge in developing and maintaining such complex software is to identify ...
—Build systems are responsible for transforming static source code artifacts into executable software. While build systems play such a crucial role in software development and ma...
This paper describes how design information, in our case UML specifications, can be used to evolve a software system and validate the consistency of such an evolution. This work c...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...