Reusing software components (e.g. classes or modules) improves software quality and developer’s productivity. Unfortunately, developers may miss many reusing opportunities since...
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
The paper discusses the potential usage of principles from General System Theory (GST) and Cybernetics for design of Autonomic Software. Motivated by the characteristics of open s...
Emil A. Stoyanov, Dieter Roller, Markus Alexander ...
—Feature-oriented software development (FOSD) aims at the construction, customization, and synthesis of large-scale software systems. We propose a novel software design paradigm,...
Sven Apel, Wolfgang Scholz, Christian Lengauer, Ch...
In this paper, we describe a framework for the computeraided evolution of the designs of object-oriented software systems. Evolution mechanisms are software structures that prepar...