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IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Stability and Volatility in the Linux Kernel
Packages are the basic units of release and reuse in software development. The contents and boundaries of packages should therefore be chosen to minimize change propagation and ma...
John Champaign, Andrew J. Malton, Xinyi Dong
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Contribution of Free Software to Software Evolution
It is remarkable to think that even without any interest in finding suitable methods and concepts that would allow complex software systems to evolve and remain manageable, the e...
Andreas Bauer 0002, Markus Pizka
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Beyond the Refactoring Browser: Advanced Tool Support for Software Refactoring
Current refactoring tools only provide support for performing selected refactorings. We show how tool support can be provided for the preparatory phases of refactoring as well, by...
Tom Mens, Tom Tourwé, Francisca Muño...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Experiences with Software Product Family Evolution
The evolution of product family typically oscillates between growing and consolidating phases. The migration path starts from a copy/paste approach that offers the fastest time-to...
Claudio Riva, Christian Del Rosso
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Chaos of Software Development
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt