Aspect oriented programming has been proposed as a way to improve modularity of software systems by allowing encapsulation of cross-cutting concerns. To do so, aspects specify whe...
The design of the variability of a software product line is crucial to its success and evolution. Meaningful variable features need to be elicited, analyzed, documented and validat...
Reinhard Stoiber, Samuel Fricker, Michael Jehle, M...
Recent research showed that the majority of compatibility-breaking changes in a component-based, object-oriented software system are refactorings [5]. The software updating proces...
Abstract-- In the proxy approach to Service Oriented Computing, a service advertises a proxy, which is searched for, retrieved and used by interested clients as a local handle to t...
Rohan Sen, Radu Handorean, Gregory Hackmann, Gruia...
More than 90% of the cost of software is due to maintenance and evolution. Understanding the evolution of large software systems is a complex problem, which requires the use of va...