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
Many of the approaches that analyze software evolution consider a static perspective of a system. Static analysis approaches focus on the evolution of static software entities suc...
The evolution of product family typically oscillates between growing and consolidating phases. The migration path starts from a copy/paste approach that offers the fastest time-to...
It is hard to develop and evolve software product-line architectures (PLAs) for large-scale distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Although certain challenges of PLAs ca...
In modern software engineering, researchers regard a software system as an organic life form that must continue to evolve to remain successful. Unfortunately, little is known abou...