After more than 40 years of life, software evolution should be considered as a mature field.
However, despite such a long history, many research questions still remain open, and …

Open source is experiencing a renaissance period, due to the appearance of modern
platforms and workflows for develo** and maintaining public code. As a result, developers …

To prioritize software maintenance activities, it is important to identify which programming
flaws impact most on an applicationpsilas evolution. Recent empirical studies on such a …

Research on software evolution is very active, but evolutionary principles, models and
theories that properly explain why and how software systems evolve over time are still …

Software repository mining research extracts and analyses data originating from multiple
software repositories to understand the historical development of software systems, and to …

Software evolution is made up of changes carried out during software maintenance. Such
accumulation of changes produces substantial modifications in software projects and …

In 2008 the predecessor of this book, entitled “Software Evolution”[592] was published by
Springer, presenting the research results of a number of researchers working on different …

Numerous empirical studies analyse evolving open source software (OSS) projects, and try
to estimate the activity and effort in these projects. Most of these studies, however, only focus …

Context Software evolution analysis can reveal important information concerning
maintenance practices. Most of the studies which analyze software evolution focus on …

We present a metrics-based study of the evolution of Eclipse, an open source integrated
development environment, based on data from seven major releases, from releases 1.0 to …