Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...
This paper 1 attempts to characterise a unifying overview of the practice of software engineers, AI designers, developers of evolutionary forms of computation, designers of adapti...
‘‘Industrial strength’’ software development environments (SDEs) must provide facilities to address three essential properties of multi-developer software systems: evoluti...
A build system breathes life into source code, as it configures and directs the construction of a software system from textual source code modules. Surprisingly, build languages a...