For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written in C, recompilatio...
Rahmat Adnan, Bas Graaf, Arie van Deursen, Joost Z...
The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortu...
Bram Adams, Herman Tromp, Kris De Schutter, Wolfga...
Recent research showed that the majority of compatibility-breaking changes in a component-based, object-oriented software system are refactorings [5]. The software updating proces...
This paper describes a language and framework that allow coordinated transformations driven by invariants to be specified declaratively, as invariant rules, and applied automatic...
Yanhong A. Liu, Michael Gorbovitski, Scott D. Stol...
This paper proposes a development methodology for distributed applications based on the principles and concepts of the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). The paper identifies phases ...