Since software systems need to be continuously available under varying conditions, their ability to evolve at runtime is increasingly seen as one key issue. Modern programming fra...
Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
Gregory Gay, Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus, Tim Men...
Abstract. Feature Models (FMs) are a key artifact for variability and commonality management in Software Product Lines (SPLs). In this context, the merging of FMs is being recogniz...
Sergio Segura, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cort&...
Traditional techniques of traceability detection and management are not equipped to handle evolution. This is a problem for the field of software architecture, where it is critica...
In software evolution analysis, many approaches analyze release history data available through versioning systems. The recent investigations of CVS data have shown that commonly c...