Software evolution research inherently has several resourceintensive logistical constraints. Archived project artifacts, such as those found in source code repositories and bug tr...
Jennifer Bevan, E. James Whitehead Jr., Sunghun Ki...
A common problem in software maintenance is the lack of documentation required for carrying out the maintenance tasks. Both expected and unexpected maintenance tasks use and produ...
In consequence of changing requirements and technological progress, software languages are subject to change. The changes affect the language’s specification, which in turn a...
Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Daniel Ratiu, Guido Wachs...
The understanding of the structure of a software system can be improved by analyzing the system’s evolution during development. Visualizations of software history that provide o...
Observing the evolution of very large software systems is difficult because of the sheer amount of information that needs to be analyzed and because the changes performed in the s...
Martin Pinzger, Harald Gall, Michael Fischer, Mich...