Context: Code changes to software occur due to various reasons such as bug fixing, new
feature addition, and code refactoring. Change intents have been studied for years to help …

Managing change is a challenging task in today's complex software engineering.
Understanding the diversity of changes and their relationship to current technologies is …

Software updates often introduce new bugs to existing code bases. Prior regression testing
tools focus mainly on test case selection and prioritization whereas symbolic execution tools …

Abstract “Change Impact Analysis” is the process of determining the consequences of a
modification to software. In theory, change impact analysis should be done during software …

Concurrent software needs to be maintained over time, and the differences between
continuous versions tend to be localized. The expense that simply reapplying standard …

The evolution and alteration of software requirements are a constant phenomenon. Change
Impact Analysis (CIA) plays a crucial role in recognizing the sections of source code that are …

The evolution and alteration of software requirements are a constant phenomenon. Change
Impact Analysis (CIA) plays a crucial role in recognizing the sections of source code that are …

Change is inevitable for software systems to deal with the evolving environment surrounding
them, and applying changes requires careful design and implementation not to break …

Today, most popular applications and websites such as Google and Facebook are
multilanguage systems. Google is developed with C, C++, Go, Java, Python, and JS, while …

Background: Software maintenance and evolution are becoming noticeably more im-portant
activities in the software development process, with the growing popularity of Agile/SCRUM …