Software merging is an essential aspect of the maintenance and evolution of large-scale
software systems. This paper provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of available …

This paper reports on the design and implementation of Chianti, a change impact analysis
tool for Java that is implemented in the context of the Eclipse environment. Chianti analyzes …

The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your
team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all …

Frameworks and libraries change their APIs. Migrating an application to the new API is
tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and ideas have been …

JML is a behavioral interface specification language tailored to Java. It is designed to be
written and read by working software engineers, and should require only modest …

Previous taxonomies of software change have focused on the purpose of the change (ie, the
why) rather than the underlying mechanisms. This paper proposes a taxonomy of software …

In this paper, we propose a means to enhance an architecture description language with a
description of component behavior. A notation used for this purpose should be able to …

Software frameworks and libraries are indispensable to today's software systems. As they
evolve, it is often time-consuming for developers to keep their code up-to-date, so …

Frameworks and libraries change their APIs. Migrating an application to the new API is
tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and ideas have been …

In this paper we study the fragile base class problem. This problem occurs in open object-
oriented systems employing code inheritance as an implementation reuse mechanism …