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ESEM
2007
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Characterizing Software Architecture Changes: An Initial Study
With today's ever increasing demands on software, developers must produce software that can be changed without the risk of degrading the software architecture. Degraded softw...
Byron J. Williams, Jeffrey C. Carver
WCRE
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Blending Conceptual and Evolutionary Couplings to Support Change Impact Analysis in Source Code
— The paper presents an approach that combines conceptual and evolutionary techniques to support change impact analysis in source code. Information Retrieval (IR) is used to deri...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk,...
METRICS
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Design Patterns and Change Proneness: An Examination of Five Evolving Systems
Design patterns are recognized, named solutions to common design problems. The use of the most commonly referenced design patterns should promote adaptable and reusable program co...
James M. Bieman, Greg Straw, Huxia Wang, P. Willar...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Evolving software product lines with aspects: an empirical study on design stability
Software product lines (SPLs) enable modular, large-scale reuse through a software architecture addressing multiple core and varying features. To reap the benefits of SPLs, their ...
Alessandro Garcia, Cláudio Sant'Anna, Eduar...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The future of research in free/open source software development
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) development is not the same an Software Engineering (SE). Why this is so is unclear and open to various interpretations. Both address the challeng...
Walt Scacchi