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IWPSE
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
How Developers Drive Software Evolution
As systems evolve their structure change in ways not expected upfront. As time goes by, the knowledge of the developers becomes more and more critical for the process of understan...
Tudor Gîrba, Adrian Kuhn, Mauricio Seeberger...
PPSN
1998
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
On Genetic Algorithms and Lindenmayer Systems
This paper describes a system for simulating the evolution of artificial 2D plant morphologies. Virtual plant genotypes are inspired by the mathematical formalism known as Lindenma...
Gabriela Ochoa
ICSM
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Design principles in architectural evolution: A case study
We wish to investigate how structural design principles are used in practice, in order to assess the utility and relevance of such principles to the maintenance of large, complex,...
Michel Wermelinger, Yijun Yu, Angela Lozano
ICSM
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Mining the Lexicon Used by Programmers during Sofware Evolution
Identifiers represent an important source of information for programmers understanding and maintaining a system. Self-documenting identifiers reduce the time and effort necessa...
Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Gaël Guéh&eacu...
ISPW
1996
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Feedback, evolution and software technology
A 1968 study of the software process led, inter alia, to the observation that the software process constitutes a feedback system. Attempts at its management and improvement must t...
M. M. Lehman