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KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using dependency model to support software architecture evolution
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...
Hongyu Pei Breivold, Ivica Crnkovic, Rikard Land, ...
IWPC
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Integrated Approach for Studying Architectural Evolution
Studying how a software system has evolved over time is difficult, time consuming, and costly; existing techniques are often limited in their applicability, are hard to extend, a...
Qiang Tu, Michael W. Godfrey
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
How Software Designs Decay: A Pilot Study of Pattern Evolution
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
Clemente Izurieta, James M. Bieman
WICSA
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Software Reconfiguration Patterns for Dynamic Evolution of Software Architectures
A software reconfiguration pattern is a solution to a problem in component-based software systems where the configuration needs to be updated while the system is operational. It d...
Hassan Gomaa, Mohamed Hussein