Supporting software evolution in component-based FOSS systems

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1144-1160

  Di Cosmo, Roberto ^b   Di Ruscio, Davide ^a   Pelliccione, Patrizio ^a   Pierantonio, Alfonso ^a   Zacchiroli, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Configuration management; FOSS systems; Model driven engineering (MDE); Open source project; System's upgrade

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; FOSS SYSTEMS; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; OPEN SOURCE PROJECT; SYSTEM'S UPGRADE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958820904     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. P. Anderson, A. Scobie, Large scale Linux configuration with LCFG, in: ALS'00: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference. USENIX, 2000, pp. 4242.
2. J. Bzivin On the unification power of models SOSYM 4 2 2005 171 188
3. A.W. Brown, and K.C. Wallnau The current state of CBSE IEEE Software 15 5 1998 37 46 (Pubitemid 128610813)
4. M. Burgess A site configuration engine Computing Systems 8 2 1995 309 337
5. J.L. CánovasIzquierdo, and J.G. Molina A domain specific language for extracting models in software modernization ECMDA-FA '09: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Model Driven ArchitectureFoundations and Applications 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg 82 97
6. S. Childs, M.E. Poleggi, C. Loomis, L.F.M. Mejías, M. Jouvin, R. Starink, S.D. Weirdt, G.C. Meliá, Devolved management of distributed infrastructures with Quattor, in: LISA. USENIX Association, 2008, pp. 175189.
7. A. Cicchetti, D. Di Ruscio, P. Pelliccione, A. Pierantonio, and S. Zacchiroli A Model Driven Approach to Upgrade Package Based Software Systems Communications in Computer and Information Science, CCIS vol. 69 2010 Springer Heidelberg 262 276
8. A. Cicchetti, D. Di Ruscio, and A. Pierantonio A metamodel independent approach to difference representation Journal of Object Technology 6 9 2007 165 185
9. O. Crameri, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, R. Bianchini, and W. Zwaenepoel Staged deployment in mirage, an integrated software upgrade testing and distribution system SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 41 6 2007 221 236 (Pubitemid 351429378)
10. T. Delaet, W. Joosen, PoDIM: a language for high-level configuration management, in: LISA. USENIX, 2007, pp. 261273.
11. N. Desai, R. Bradshaw, C. Lueninghoener, Directing change using Bcfg2, in: LISA. USENIX, 2006, pp. 215220.
12. R. Di Cosmo, P. Trezentos, and S. Zacchiroli Package upgrades in FOSS distributions: details and challenges HotSWUp '08: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades 2008 ACM New York, NY, USA 1 5
13. D. Di Ruscio, P. Pelliccione, A. Pierantonio, Instantiation of the metamodel on a widely used gnu/linux distribution, Mancoosi Project deliverable D2.2, Jan. 2010, http://www.mancoosi.org/reports/d2.2.pdf.
14. D. Di Ruscio, P. Pelliccione, A. Pierantonio, S. Zacchiroli, Metamodel for describing system structure and state, Mancoosi Project deliverable D2.1, Jan. 2009, http://www.mancoosi.org/reports/d2.1.pdf.
15. D. DiRuscio, P. Pelliccione, A. Pierantonio, and S. Zacchiroli Towards maintainer script modernization in FOSS distributions IWOCE '09: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Open Component Ecosystems 2009 ACM New York, NY, USA 11 20
16. D. Di Ruscio, J. Thomson, P. Pelliccione, A. Pierantonio, First version of the DSL based on the model developed in WP2, Mancoosi Project deliverable D3.2, Nov. 2009, http://www.mancoosi.org/reports/d3.2.pdf.
17. E. Dolstra, and A. Lh NixOS: a purely functional Linux distribution ICFP '08: Proceeding of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming 2008 ACM New York, NY, USA 367 378
18. D. D'Souza, and A. Wills Objects, Components, and Frameworks with UML: The Catalysis Approach 1999 Addison-Wesley Boston, MA
19. F. Fleurey, E. Breton, B. Baudry, A. Nicolas, J.-M. Jzquel, Model-driven engineering for software migration in a large industrial context, in: MoDELS'07, 2007.
20. J. Gonzalez-Barahona, G. Robles, M. Michlmayr, J. Amor, and D. German Macro-level software evolution: a case study of a large software compilation Empirical Software Engineering 14 3 2009 262 285
21. M.K. Johnson, Building linux software with conary, in: Proceedings of the Linux Symposium, 2005.
22. L. Kanies, ISconf: theory, practice, and beyond, in: USENIX-LISA'03, USENIX Association, 2003, pp. 115124.
23. L. Kanies Puppet: Next-generation configuration management The USENIX Magazine 31 1 2006 19 25
24. M.M. Lehman, and L.A. Belady Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change 1985 Academic Press Professional, Inc. San Diego, CA, USA
25. M.M. Lehman, and J.F. Ramil Software evolution in the age of component-based software engineering IEE ProceedingsSoftware 147 6 2000 249 255 (Pubitemid 32334254)
26. F. Mancinelli, J. Boender, R. Di Cosmo, J. Vouillon, B. Durak, X. Leroy, R. Treinen, Managing the complexity of large free and open source package-based software distributions, in: ASE 2006, Sep. 2006, pp. 199208.
27. K. Mazurak, and S. Zdancewic Abash: finding bugs in bash scripts PLAS '07 2007 ACM 105 114 (Pubitemid 350164754)
28. R. McQueen, Creating, reverting & manipulating filesystem changesets on Linux, Part II Dissertation, University of Cambridge, May 2005.
29. T. Mens, and S. Demeyer Software Evolution 2008 Springer
30. T. Mens, M. Wermelinger, S. Ducasse, S. Demeyer, R. Hirschfeld, M. Jazayeri, Challenges in software evolution, in: IWPSE'05, 2005.
31. P. Naur, B. Randell, Software engineering report on a conference sponsored by the NATO science committee, October 1968, p. 231.
32. (OMG), O. M. G., Architecture-driven modernization (ADM), 2010, http://adm.omg.org/.
33. E.S. Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar 2001 O'Reilly
34. T. Reus, H. Geers, A.V. Deursen, Harvesting software systems for MDA-based reengineering, in: ECMDA-FA 2006, vol. 4066, 2006, pp. 213225. (Pubitemid 44124028)
35. R. Treinen, and S. Zacchiroli Expressing advanced user preferences in componet installation IWOCE'09 2009 ACM 31 40
36. Y. Xie, A. Aiken, Static detection of security vulnerabilities in scripting languages, in: USENIX-SS'06, 2006, pp. 179192.