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A Conceptualization of OO Evolution

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Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS 2003)

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We propose to characterize OO evolution according to its own features and independently from any language or model syntax. We outline the three dimensions of OO evolution that we consider as fundamental: the subject of evolution (the structure or the behavior of objects), the type of evolution (whether evolution is foreseeable or not) and the mechanism of evolution used to deal with object evolution (from class or instance toward classes or instances). After that, we focus only on the first part of the subject dimension, namely the object structure. We propose taxonomy on object structure (the node and the connection) and taxonomy on unary and binary evolution operations. Finally, we analyze according to these taxonomies and propose how to position any evolution strategy within the proposed repository.

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    Dalila Tamzalit & Mourad Oussalah

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  1. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, University of Geneva, 24 rue Général Dufour, 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    Dimitri Konstantas

  2. Department of Information Science and Media Studies CUI, University of Geneva, 24 Rue du Général Dufour, 1211, Geneve 4, Switzerland

    Michel Léonard

  3. University of Lausanne Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, 1015, Dorigny, Switzerland

    Yves Pigneur

  4. Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University School of Computing, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA, London, UK

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Tamzalit, D., Oussalah, M. (2003). A Conceptualization of OO Evolution. In: Konstantas, D., Léonard, M., Pigneur, Y., Patel, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Information Systems. OOIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2817. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45242-3_25

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