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Exploiting the map metaphor in a tool for software evolution

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William G. Griswold,

Yoshikiyo KatoAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '01: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 265 - 274

Published: 01 July 2001 Publication History

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Software maintenance and evolution are the dominant activities in the software lifecycle. Modularization can separate design decisions and allow them to be independently evolved, but modularization often breaks down and complicated global changes are required. Tool support can reduce the costs of these unfortunate changes, but current tools are limited in their ability to manage information for large-scale software evolution. In this paper we argue that the map metaphor can serve as an organizing principle for the design of effective tools for performing global software changes. We describe the design of Aspect Browser, developed around the map metaphor, and discuss a case study of removing a feature from a 500,000 line program written in Fortran and C.

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