The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
This paper builds on ideas in a recent paper which argued that the core subject matter of the IS field should not be “the IT artifact” (as suggested by Orlikowski and Iacono [...
Many industrial real-time systems have evolved over a long period of time and were initially so simple that it was possible to predict consequences of adding new functionality by c...
Anders Wall, Johan Andersson, Jonas Neander, Chris...
Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...
Changing demands, software evolution, and bug fixes require the possibility to update applications as well as system software of embedded devices. Systems that perform updates of ...