IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
There is a growing demand to port existing PC-based software systems to mobile device platforms. Systems running on mobile devices share basic characteristics with their PC-based ...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
In modern software engineering, researchers regard a software system as an organic life form that must continue to evolve to remain successful. Unfortunately, little is known abou...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
The evolution of product family typically oscillates between growing and consolidating phases. The migration path starts from a copy/paste approach that offers the fastest time-to...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Current refactoring tools only provide support for performing selected refactorings. We show how tool support can be provided for the preparatory phases of refactoring as well, by...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
The number of software systems is increasing at a rapid rate. For example, SourceForge currently has about sixty thousand software systems registered, twenty-two thousand of which...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
One of the issues in software evolution is debugging. Debugging large and complex software systems evolved requires a lot of effort since it is very difficult to localize and ide...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
The dependencies and interrelations between classes and modules affect the maintainability of object-oriented systems. It is therefore important to capture weaknesses of the softw...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Packages are the basic units of release and reuse in software development. The contents and boundaries of packages should therefore be chosen to minimize change propagation and ma...