Humans will have to live with software for a long time. As demonstrated by the Y2K problem, computer professionals used a wrong time scale when thinking about software. Large soft...
As systems evolve their structure change in ways not expected upfront. As time goes by, the knowledge of the developers becomes more and more critical for the process of understan...
A software system is continuously changed so many times. When we try to change a software, we must understand how the software is implemented, especially about the functions to be...
Koji Taniguchi, Takashi Ishio, Toshihiro Kamiya, S...
Visualizing software evolution is essential for identifying design erosions that have occurred over the past releases. Making evolutionary aspects explicit via visual representati...
Software evolution research has recently focused on new development paradigms, studying whether laws found in more classic development environments also apply. Previous works have...