Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
An Empirical Approach to Studying Software Evolution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Does Code Decay? Assessing the Evidence from Change Management Data
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Metrics and analysis of software architecture evolution with discontinuity
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Rules and Tools for Software Evolution Planning and Management
Annals of Software Engineering
An Approach to Modelling Long-Term Growth Trends in Software Systems
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Evolution Spectrographs: Visualizing Punctuated Change in Software Evolution
IWPSE '04 Proceedings of the Principles of Software Evolution, 7th International Workshop
Classifying Change Types for Qualifying Change Couplings
ICPC '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Forecasting the Number of Changes in Eclipse Using Time Series Analysis
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Change Distilling: Tree Differencing for Fine-Grained Source Code Change Extraction
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A framework for the simulation of structural software evolution
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
A mathematical model for the evolution of software
Journal of Systems and Software
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Simulations have been used in various areas, yielding good results, but their application to software evolution is still limited. Simulations of software evolution can help people understand the driving forces that shape software evolution, and predict future evolutionary paths. To move towards simulation of software evolution, this research tries to explore possible models to simulate software evolution, and the applicability of different data to parameterize the models. The simulations will both be based on fine-grained code changes obtained by comparing the abstract syntax trees of source code. The use of fine-grain code changes could reveal information about software evolution that is unavailable by other means.