IBM Systems Journal
Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View
METRICS '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Evaluation Experiments on the Detection of Programming Patterns Using Software Metrics
WCRE '97 Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '97)
An Integrated Approach for Studying Architectural Evolution
IWPC '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Using Origin Analysis to Detect Merging and Splitting of Source Code Entities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An empirical study of code clone genealogies
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
An exploratory study of identifier renamings
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Data clone detection and visualization in spreadsheets
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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Many long term studies of software evolution have made the simplifying assumption that the system's architecture and low-level structure is relatively stable. In our past work, we have found that this is often untrue; therefore, we have sought to investigate ways to detect and model structural change in software systems through a technique we call origin analysis [6] and supported a tool called Beagle [7]. In this position paper, we present a summary of our recent and ongoing work in this area, and we argue that more attention needs to be paid to techniques for understanding architectural and structural evolution of software systems.