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ASWEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 months ago
SemDiff: Analysis and recommendation support for API evolution
As a framework evolves, changes in its Application Programming Interface (API) can break client programs that extend the framework. Repairing a client program can be a challenging...
Barthélémy Dagenais, Martin P. Robil...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Hecataeus: A What-If Analysis Tool for Database Schema Evolution
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...
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CSMR
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Towards the Automatic Evolution of Reengineering Tools
Building reverse engineering or reengineering tools often requires parsers for many different programming languages. The diffusion of dialects and variants makes many available pa...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Kunal Taneja
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SEKE
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Entering the Heart of Design: Relationships for Tracing Claim Evolution
Designers need guidance in tracing knowledge to support the iterative development of interactive software interfaces. Claims show promise in capturing design knowledge with concis...
Shahtab Wahid, C. F. Allgood, Christa M. Chewar, D...