Incremental changes add new functionality and properties to software. They are the core of software evolution, maintenance, iterative development, agile development, and similar s...
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...
In software product families, the full benefit of reuse can only be achieved if traceability of requirements to architecture, components and further down to source code is support...
Requirements models are essential not just during system implementation, but also to manage system changes post-implementation. Such models should be supported by a requirements m...
Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Yijun Yu, Tien Ngu...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...