Claims concerning the maintainability of object oriented software usually refer to encapsulation and inheritance mechanisms. However, if objects are perceived only from the code l...
Roland Mittermeir, Helfried Pirker, Dominik Rauner...
Abstract—Change coupling is the implicit relationship between two or more software artifacts that have been observed to frequently change together during the evolution of a softw...
Change of DNA sequence that fuels evolution is, to a certain extent, a deterministic process because mutagenesis does not occur in an absolutely random manner. So far, it has not ...
Ch. Mizas, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Vasilios A. Ma...
Building software systems out of pre-fabricated components is a very attractive vision. Distributed Component Platforms (DCP) and their visual development environments bring this v...
The lifecycle of defects reports and enhancement requests collected in the Bugzilla database of the GNOME project provides valuable information on the evolution of the change requ...