Software Evolution

• Main Authors: Mens, Tom (Author), Demeyer, Serge (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Software has become omnipresent and vital in our information-based society, so all software producers should assume responsibility for its reliability. While "reliable" originally assumed implementations that were effective and mainly error-free, additional issues like adaptability and mai...

Table of Contents:

• and Roadmap: History and Challenges of Software Evolution
• and Roadmap: History and Challenges of Software Evolution
• Understanding and Analysing Software Evolution
• Identifying and Removing Software Clones
• Analysing Software Repositories to Understand Software Evolution
• Predicting Bugs from History
• Reengineering of Legacy Systems
• Object-Oriented Reengineering
• Migration of Legacy Information Systems
• Architectural Transformations: From Legacy to Three-Tier and Services
• Novel Trends in Software Evolution
• On the Interplay Between Software Testing and Evolution and its Effect on Program Comprehension
• Evolution Issues in Aspect-Oriented Programming
• Software Architecture Evolution
• Empirical Studies of Open Source Evolution.