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SAC
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
In this paper the issue of system evolution is addressed. Activity Theory and the concept of exapansive cycles are reviewed as theories to explain systemic evolution. Contradictio...
ECOOPW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Software evolution has largely been focused on low-level implementation artefacts through refactoring techniques rather than the architectural level. However code-centric...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE-ACM
This paper describes the role of requirements discovery during the testing of a safety-critical software system. Analysis of problem reports generated by the integration and syste...
ICIS
1997
13 years 6 months ago
1997
Although the potential impacts of virtual communities have been widely recognized in business and academia, little research has been done to provide guidelines for design of such ...
QSIC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Recent research showed that the majority of compatibility-breaking changes in a component-based, object-oriented software system are refactorings [5]. The software updating proces...