During software evolution a collection of related artifacts with different representations are created. Some of these are composed of structured data (e.g., analysis data), some c...
Andrian Marcus, Andrea De Lucia, Jane Huffman Haye...
Software maintenance and evolution is arguably a lengthy and expensive phase in the life cycle of a software system. A critical issue at this phase is change propagation: given a ...
: Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) and Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) are solutions to support software evolution by decomposing a software system into conc...
Nicolas Pessemier, Lionel Seinturier, Laurence Duc...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...