Inferring structural patterns for concern traceability in evolving software
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Aspect recommendation for evolving software
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Topology analysis of software dependencies
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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The association between the description of a concern (e.g., a feature) and the code that implements it is valuable information that can degrade as the code of a system evolves. We present a study of the evolution of the implementation of a concern in 33 versions of an open-source text editor. We represented the implementation of the concern using concern graphs, a model that was designed to be resilient to source code evolution. The study showed how the concern graph model supports tracking a concern's implementation in an evolving system, as well as inferring high-level past changes and assessing the stability of the concern's implementation.