Database modeling is still a job of an artisan. Due to this approach database schemata evolve by growth without any evolution plan. Finally, they cannot be examined, surveyed, con...
Many software systems rely on third-party components during their build process. Because the components are constantly evolving, quality assurance demands that developers perform ...
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Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
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Retrofitting security implementations to a released software-intensive system or to a system under development may require significant architectural or coding changes. These late...
—Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect t...
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