As a software system evolves to accommodate new features and repair bugs, changes are needed. Software components are interdependent, changes made to one component can require cha...
The evolution of Web Applications needs to be supported by the availability of proper analysis and design documents. UML use case diagrams are certainly useful to identify feature...
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Anna ...
—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...
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
Software is typically improved and modified in small increments (we refer to each of these increments as a modification record--MR). MRs are usually stored in a configuration manag...