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Visual identification of software evolution patterns

Authors:

Andrejs Jermakovics,

Marco Scotto, and

Giancarlo SucciAuthors Info & Claims

IWPSE '07: Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting

September 2007

Pages 27 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/1294948.1294956

Published: 03 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Software evolution plays a key role in the overall lifecycle of a software system. In this phase, software developers extend the capabilities and functionality of the system to meet new user requirements. However, the maintenance process could rapidly lead to phenomena of "source code deterioration". The possibility to early detect bad software evolution patterns represents a paramount opportunity to keep the application maintainable. In this paper we propose a combined visualization to identify software evolution patterns related to user requirements. Such visualization consists in showing the evolution metrics of a software system together with the implementation of its requirements. We also show some examples on how this visualization could help to identify some "common" evolution patterns.

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Visual identification of software evolution patterns
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IWPSE '07: Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting

September 2007

122 pages

ISBN:9781595937223

DOI:10.1145/1294948

Program Chairs:
Massimiliano Di Penta
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University of Lugano, Switzerland

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