MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
Studying the evolution of topics (collections of co-occurring words) in a software project is an emerging technique to automatically shed light on how the project is changing over...
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
IEEE-ACM
Much research in software engineering have been focused on improving software quality and automating the maintenance process to reduce software costs and mitigating complications ...
WS
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
One of the most important decisions researchers face when analyzing software systems is the choice of a proper data analysis/exchange format. In this paper, we present EvoOnt, a s...
JSS
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...
ENTCS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Software evolution research is limited by the amount of information available to researchers: Current version control tools do not store all the information generated by developer...
JUCS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
: Nowadays, software evolution is a very hot topic. It is particularly complex when it regards critical and nonstopping systems. Usually, these situations are tackled by hard-codin...
JSW
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Abstract— In many software design and evaluation techniques, either the software evolution problem is not systematically elaborated, or only the impact of evolution is considered...
ENTCS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Nowadays, software evolution is a very hot topic. Many applications need to be updated or extended with new characteristics during their lifecycle. Software evolution is character...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
Software Visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of methods of software, including its structure, execut...