Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...
Following last four years' RAM-SE (Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution) workshop at the ECOOP conference, the RAM-SE'08 workshop was a successful and pop...
Manuel Oriol, Walter Cazzola, Shigeru Chiba, Gunte...
Software evolution and reuse is more likely to receive higher payoff if high-level artifacts—such as architectures and designs—can be reused and can guide low-level component ...
We present a suite of small tools, implemented as a pipeline of text file manipulating scripts, that, on one hand, measure the evolution of any software structure that can be rep...
Software maintenanceand evolutionare the dominantactivities in the software lifecycle. Modularization can separate design decisions and allow them to be independently evolved, but...
William G. Griswold, Jimmy J. Yuan, Yoshikiyo Kato