Crosscutting concerns consist in software system features having the implementation spread across modules as tangled and scattered code. In many cases, these crosscutting concerns...
Lerina Aversano, Luigi Cerulo, Massimiliano Di Pen...
Analyzing historical information can show how a software system evolved into its current state, which parts of the system are stable and which have changed more. However, historic...
The structural stability of an object-oriented design (OOD) refers to the extent to which the structure of the design is preserved throughout the evolution of the software from on...
We analyze the main motivations that lead to the present need for supporting continuous software evolution, and discuss some of the reasons for change requirements. Achieving softw...
—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...