Design mentoring based on design evolution analysis
eclipse '04 Proceedings of the 2004 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
Analyzing the Evolutionary History of the Logical Design of Object-Oriented Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
UMLDiff: an algorithm for object-oriented design differencing
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Modeling history to analyze software evolution: Research Articles
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
An evaluation of code similarity identification for the grow-and-prune model
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Special Issue on the 12th Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2008)
Extending the reflexion method for consolidating software variants into product lines
Software Quality Control
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Understanding the phases and styles of evolution of software systems can provide valuable insight in support of project management. In this paper, we present a method for studying the evolution of object-oriented software at system/subsystem level and analyzing the underlying factors that drive its unfolding over time. This method relies on analyzing the design-level structural changes between two subsequent software versions to identify additions, removals, moves, renamings and signature-changes of classes, interfaces, and their methods and fields, represented as change trees. A sequence of such change trees constitutes the systemýs evolution profile. Based on discrete system evolution profiles, three types of analyses ..phasic analysis, gamma analysis, and optimal matching analysis ..are applied, to abstract an overall sequential pattern and structural properties of system evolution phases and to develop the typology of system evolution styles. We report on two case studies evaluating our approach.