Keyword

software evolution

Description: The ongoing process of modifying and adapting software systems to meet changing requirements, environments, and maintenance needs.

Primary topic: Software Engineering Research (45%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q265013

OpenAlex ID: keywords/software-evolution

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

1990 · Grady Booch · 3,463

Regression testing minimization, selection and prioritization: a survey

2012 · S. Yoo, M. Harman · Software Testing Verification and Reliability · 1,321

N degrees of separation

1999 · Peri Tarr, Harold Ossher, et al. · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 1,245

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Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution

1980 · M.M. Lehman · Proceedings of the IEEE · 1,181

The evolution of Protégé: an environment for knowledge-based systems development

2003 · John H Gennari, Mark A Musen, et al. · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · 1,138

Dynamically discovering likely program invariants to support program evolution

2001 · M.D. Ernst, J. Cockrell, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1,051

Real-time object-oriented modeling

1994 · Selic, Bran, Gullekson, Garth, et al. · Choice Reviews Online · 992

Grammatical evolution

2001 · M. O'Neill, C. Ryan · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 957

Software processes are software too

1987 · Leon J. Osterweil · 881

Self-Managed Systems: an Architectural Challenge

2007 · Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee · 837

When do changes induce fixes?

2005 · Jacek Śliwerski, Thomas Zimmermann, et al. · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 809

DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells

2009 · N. Moha, Y.-G. Gueheneuc, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 803

Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change

1985 · M. M. Lehman, L. A. Belady · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 802

Building Microservices

2015 · Sam Newman · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 778

Use of relative code churn measures to predict system defect density

2005 · Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 770

Advances in Genetic Programming

1996 · The MIT Press eBooks · 724

Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

2006 · Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, et al. · Management Science · 720

Software Change Impact Analysis

1996 · Robert S. Arnold · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 673

Gene Expression Programming in Problem Solving

2002 · Cândida Ferreira · Springer eBooks · 655

Does code decay? Assessing the evidence from change management data

2001 · S.G. Eick, T.L. Graves, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 636

Software maintenance and evolution

2000 · Keith H. Bennett, Václav T. Rajlich · 606

Feature location in source code: a taxonomy and survey

2011 · Bogdan Dit, Meghan Revelle, et al. · Journal of Software Evolution and Process · 588

Program comprehension during software maintenance and evolution

1995 · A. Von Mayrhauser, A.M. Vans · Computer · 576

Fine-grained and accurate source code differencing

2014 · Jean-Rémy Falleri, Floréal Morandat, et al. · IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) · 563

Metrics and laws of software evolution-the nineties view

2002 · M.M. Lehman, J.F. Ramil, et al. · IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS) · 561

Works count: 15,790

Citation count: 187,700