An agent-oriented approach to support change propagation in software evolution

  • Authors:
  • Khanh Hoa Dam

  • Affiliations:
  • RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: doctoral mentoring program
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

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 set of primary changes that have been made to software, what additional secondary changes are needed? Although many approaches have been proposed, automated change propagation is still a significant technical challenge in software maintenance and evolution. This paper presents a Ph.D. research in the final stages of developing and evaluating a novel, agent-based, framework to support semi-automated change propagation in evolving software systems.