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WICSA
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing the Evolution of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory: Two Exploratory
Software modularization activities remain without the guidance of formal theories and models. According to Baldwin and Clark's [1] design rule theory (DRT) , modular architec...
Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan MacCormack...
ECOOP
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Design-Based Pointcuts Robustness Against Software Evolution
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a powerful technique to better modularize object-oriented programs by introducing crosscutting concerns in a safe and noninvasive way. Unfortu...
Walter Cazzola, Sonia Pini, Massimo Ancona
IWPSE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Talking tests: an empirical assessment of the role of fit acceptance tests in clarifying requirements
The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...
CAISE
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
System Ontology and its role in Software Development
The research reported upon in this paper aims at reducing errors in both the requirements engineering and the system specification phase of software development, by means of system...
Jan L. G. Dietz
CAISE
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Coordination Technologies for Managing Information System Evolution
Information System Engineering has become under increasing pressure to come up with software solutions that endow systems with the agility that is required to evolve in a continual...
Luis Filipe Andrade, José Luiz Fiadeiro