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...
— 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,...
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...
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 ...
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...