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ASWEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
AOSD
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Back to the future: a retroactive study of aspect evolution in operating system code
The FreeBSD operating system more than doubled in size between version 2 and version 4. Many changes to primary modularity are easy to spot at a high-level. For example, new devic...
Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales
ICSM
2000
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
Michael W. Godfrey, Qiang Tu
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Quantitative Aspects of Requirements Evolution
Requirements Evolution is considered one of the most critical issues in developing computer-based systems. Despite the recognised role of requirements in Software Engineering, Req...
Stuart Anderson, Massimo Felici
KBSE
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Variability modeling in the real: a perspective from the operating systems domain
Variability models represent the common and variable features of products in a product line. Several variability modeling languages have been proposed in academia and industry; ho...
Thorsten Berger, Steven She, Rafael Lotufo, Andrze...