Even though the benefits of component-based software development are widely accepted, they are easily overestimated. To provide a firmer basis for the general discussion we descri...
Large multi-platform, multi-million lines of codes software systems evolve to cope with new platform or to meet user ever changing needs. While there has been several studies focu...
Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenais, P. Bachand, J. S. S...
Software evolution is an essential concept underlying the engineering of corporate portals. Due to the complexity of such systems, it requires great effort and is not advisable to...
We analyze the main motivations that lead to the present need for supporting continuous software evolution, and discuss some of the reasons for change requirements. Achieving softw...
The problem of managing the evolution of complex and large software systems is well known. Evolution implies reuse and modification of existing software artifacts, and this means t...