During the last decades, performance of available hardware resources constantly increased [15], which enabled the assignment of more and more complex tasks to software systems. As...
Jens Bruhn, Christian Niklaus, Thomas Vogel, Guido...
Abstractions in Large Systems William G. Griswold, Member, IEEE, Morison I. Chen, Robert W. Bowdidge, Jenny L. Cabaniss, Van B. Nguyen, and J. David Morgenthaler Restructuring soft...
William G. Griswold, Morison I. Chen, Robert W. Bo...
Source code is the target and final outcome of software development. By focusing our research and analysis on source code only, we risk forgetting that software is the product of...
This paper presents a model of change propagation during software maintenance and evolution. Change propagation is modeled as a sequence of snapshots, where each snapshot represen...
Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...