CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Aspect-oriented design needs to be systematically assessed with respect to modularity flaws caused by the realization of driving system concerns, such as tangling, scattering, and...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Effort to evolve and maintain a software system is likely to vary depending on the amount and frequency of change requests. This paper proposes to model change requests as time se...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
With an ever-increasing amount of software in place, the importance and ubiquity of software maintenance is continuously growing. Another more recent trend is to “offshore” su...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Families of products are steadily emerging for distinct settings such as embedded systems, navigational systems, financial applications or even web applications. This shifts the a...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Design anomalies, introduced during software evolution, are frequent causes of low maintainability and low flexibility to future changes. Because of the required knowledge, an im...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Many C++ extractors exist that produce syntax trees, call graphs, and metrics from C++ code, yet few offer integrated querying, navigation, and visualization of sourcecode-level f...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Legacy systems are often large and difficult to maintain, but rewriting them from scratch is usually not a viable option. Reenginering remains the only way to modernize them. We ...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
To understand the evolution of software researchers have developed a plethora of tools to parse, model, and analyze the history of systems. Despite their usefulness, a common down...