ABB DARWIN Software Evolution for Industrial Automation Systems: Literature Overview

2 Outline In this document we collect and classify literature with respect to software evolution. The main objective is to get an overview of approaches for the evolution of sustainable software systems with focus on the domain of industrial process control systems. The document is structured as follows: In Chapter 1 we describe the literature investigation strategy. We present questions with respect to the problem space (software evolution) and the solution space (solution approaches), and a set of evaluation criteria. Chapter 2 surveys the problem domain and explains our understanding of sustainability and evolution. In Chapter 3 we summarise analytical approaches, which aim at identifying evolution problems or factors that influence evolution. In Chapter 4 we describe solution approaches for active prevention or handling of evolution challenges. Chapter 5 gives a quick overview on related survey documents. Chapter 6 briefly summarises the findings from this document. Chapter 7 lists information sources which were used for this document and Chapter 8 lists the definitions of important terms used in this document in a glossary.