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Software Change and Evolution

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Changeability (also called evolvability) is an essential property of software. Software change is the foundation for both new software development and legacy software maintenance, therefore a better understanding of software change is an important software engineering issue. This paper covers selected topics related to software change, including minicycle of change, partitioned annotations, and change propagation, and gives a brief overview of the field.

This work was partially supported by a grant from Ford Motor Co. and NSF grant CCR-9803876.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

    Václav Rajlich

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  1. DCIT, s.r.o, J. Martího 2/407, 162 02, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Jan Pavelka

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 14, 3584, CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerard Tel

  3. Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Bartošek

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Rajlich, V. (1999). Software Change and Evolution. In: Pavelka, J., Tel, G., Bartošek, M. (eds) SOFSEM’99: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1725. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47849-3_12

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