CIST 9080
Spring 2011
Lecturer: Harvey Siy (February 22, 2011)
Title: Software Evolution and the Analysis of Software Artifacts

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Background reading:

• Basics: Introduction to Software Evolution
• More on software evolution: Lehman. Programs, Life Cycles, and Laws of Software Evolution
• Analysis of software artifact repositories: Xie and Hassan. Tutorial on Mining Software Engineering Data

Additional readings (past contributions and ongoing work):

• Empirical studies of software evolution:
  • Perry, et al. Parallel Changes in Large Scale Software Development: An Observational Case Study.
  • Atkins, et al. Quantifying the Value of New Technologies for Software Development
  • Yokomori, et al. Assessing the Impact of Framework Changes Using Component Ranking
  • Yokomori, et al. Measuring the Effects of Aspect-Oriented Refactoring on Component Relationships: Two Case Studies
• Mining software repositories: Siy, Chundi, Rosenkrantz, Subramaniam. A segmentation-based approach for temporal analysis of software version repositories
• Semantic change analysis: Subramaniam, et al. Consistently Incorporating Changes to Evolve Transition-based Systems
• Code migration: Winter, et al. Incorporating Standard Java Libraries into the Design of Embedded Systems. (see also Prof. Winter's lecture)

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