Abstract—Correcting software defects accounts for a significant amount of resources such as time, money and personnel. To be able to focus testing efforts where needed the most,...
In this article we show the results of an extensive research on scenario evolution. We investigated twelve case studies spanning over 200 scenarios that contained over 800 episode...
Karin Breitman, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite
This paper applies Lehman's theory of software evolution to analyse the characteristics of web-based applications and identifies the essences and incidents that cause difficu...
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
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 ...