It has long been accepted that requirements analysis should precede architectural design and implementation, but in software evolution and reverse engineering this concern with bl...
Abstract—The increasing need for continuously available software systems has raised two key-issues: self-adaptation and design evolution. The former one requires software systems...
Brice Morin, Thomas Ledoux, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, F...
Large software systems have a rich development history. Mining certain aspects of this rich history can reveal interesting insights into the system and its structure. Previous app...
One of the characteristics of large software systems is that they evolve over time. Evolution patterns include modifications related to the implementation, interfaces and the over...
Ladan Tahvildari, Richard Gregory, Kostas Kontogia...
Software evolution research is limited by the amount of information available to researchers: Current version control tools do not store all the information generated by developer...