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ECOOP
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Case Study for Aspect Based Updating
Rather than upgrading a software system to the next version by installing a new binary, software systems could be updated "on-thefly" during their execution. We are devel...
Susanne Cech Previtali, Thomas R. Gross
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Study of the Time Dependence of Code Changes
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Omar Alam, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
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
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Empirical Evidence for SOC Dynamics in Software Evolution
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt, Ahmed E. Hassan
WCRE
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Retrieving Task-Related Clusters from Change History
During software maintenance tasks, developers often spend an important amount of effort investigating source code. This effort can be reduced if tools are available to help develo...
Martin P. Robillard, Barthélémy Dage...