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ASWEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Comprehensive Feature-Oriented Traceability Model for Software Product Line Development
Feature-oriented traceability is essential for efficient Software Product Line (SPL) development, including product derivation and SPL evolution. Widely-used feature based method ...
Liwei Shen, Xin Peng, Wenyun Zhao
WICSA
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Real World Influences on Software Architecture - Interviews with Industrial System Experts
Industrial systems are examples of complex and often long-lived systems in which software is playing an increasingly important role. Their architectures play a crucial role in mai...
Goran Mustapic, Anders Wall, Christer Norströ...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks
Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
Jonathan Sillito, Gail C. Murphy, Kris De Volder
SOFSEM
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Lessons in Software Evolution Learned by Listening to Smalltalk
The biggest challenge facing software developers today is how to gracefully evolve complex software systems in the face of changing requirements. We clearly need software systems t...
Oscar Nierstrasz, Tudor Gîrba
CIMCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Connector-Driven Gradual and Dynamic Software Assembly Evolution
Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...
Huaxi (Yulin) Zhang, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Va...