Analyzing software evolvability

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 327-330

  Breivold, Hongyu Pei ^a,b   Crnkovic, Ivica ^b   Eriksson, Peter J ^a  

^a ABB AB

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION SYSTEMS; EVOLVABILITY; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES; LIFE-CYCLE; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITIES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTERS; MAINTAINABILITY; MODAL ANALYSIS; WORD PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 51949097703     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. K. Bennett and V. Rajlich. Software Maintenance and Evolution: a Roadmap. The Future of Software Engineering, Anthony Finkelstein (Ed.), ACM Press 2000.
2. B.W. Boehm et al. Characteristics of Software Quality. Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1978.
3. J. Bosch. Design and Use of Software Architectures - Adopting and Evolving a Product-Line Approach. Addison-Wesley. 2000.
4. N. Chap in et al. Types of Software Evolution and Software Maintenance, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 2001.
5. S. Ciraci and P. Broek. Evolvability as a Quality Attribute of Software Architectures. The International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution 2006.
6. G. Dromey. Cornering the Chimera. IEEE Software (January): 33-43, 1996.
7. N.S. Eickelmann and D.J. Richardson. What Makes One Software Architecture More Testable Than Another? SIGSOFT Workshop, 1996.
8. th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2004.
9. R. Grady and D. Caswell. Software Metrics: Establishing a Company-Wide Program. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, PrenticeHall. 1987.
10. D. Isaac and G. McConaughy. The Role of Architecture and Evolutionary Development in Accommodating Change. Proc. NCOSE'94, 1994.
11. ISO/IEC 9126-1. International Standard. Software Engineering. Product Quality - Part 1: Quality Model, 2001.
12. Laprie, Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems. Vol. 5, Dependability: Basic Concepts and Terminology. Laprie, J.C. (ed.). New York: Springer, 1992
13. M.M. Lehman and J.F. Ramil et al. Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View. IEEE Computer Press, pp 20-32, 1997.
14. J.A. McCall, P.K. Richards and G.F. Walters. Factors in Software Quality. National Technical Information Service, 1977.
15. T.M. Pigoski. Practical Software Maintenance. Wiley Computer Publishing, 1996.
16. J.F. Ramil and M.M. Lehman. Metrics of Software Evolution as Effort Predictors - A Case Study. ICSM, 2000.
17. D. Rowe and J. Leaney. Evaluating Evolvability of Computer Based Systems Architectures - an Ontological Approach. Proc. of International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 1997.
18. D. Rowe and J. Leaney. Defining Systems Evolvability - a Taxonomy of Change. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Computer Based Systems, 1998.
19. N. Subramanian and L. Chung. Process-Oriented Metrics for Software Architecture Evolvability. 6th IWPSE, 2002.
20. T. Tamai and Y. Torimitsu. Software Lifetime and its Evolution Process over Generations. ICSM, 1992.
21. N.H. Weiderman et al. Approaches to Legacy Systems Evolution. Technical Report CMU/SEI-97-TR-014, 1997.