Software change-prone class prediction can enhance software decision making activities during software maintenance (e.g., resource allocating). Many change-prone class prediction approaches have been proposed and most are effective in interversion prediction within a project. These approaches usually build a supervised prediction model by learning from historical labeled dataset. However, a maj...

Any response to the software maintenance challenge must address the underlying problem of program understanding. One way of doing this is through reverse engineering. A successful approach to reverse engineering must be both exible and scalable. Most reverse engineering tools provide a xed palette of analysis, extraction, organization, representation, and selection techniques. This paper descri...

To change applications to fit the needs for users, for different places and for development over time has long been a challenge called software maintenance. In this chapter we take up tailoring as a means to make software flexible. Starting with two case studies one taking up tailoring for different users and one addressing changes over time the article discusses the problems with both use and ...

Contemporary product maintenance (including preventive services, repairs and upgrading) is becoming increasingly complex as products become more versatile and inherently complicated and as the number of available model variants multiplies. Consequently, maintenance is becoming a bottleneck in many engineering systems. This paper discusses a new online product maintenance approach based on augme...

One of Software Engineering’s main goals is to build complex applications in a simple way. For that, software components must be described by its functional and non-functional properties. Then, the problem is to know which component satisfies a specific need in a specific composition context, during software conception or maintenance. We state that this is a substitution problem in any of the t...

The dynamic features of programming languages are useful constructs that bring developers convenience and flexibility, but they are also perceived to lead to difficulties in software maintenance. Figuring out whether the use of dynamic features affects maintenance is significant for both researchers and practitioners, yet little work has been done to investigate it. In this paper, we conduct an...

Software engineering research has focused primarily on software construction, neglecting software maintenance and evolution. Observed is a shift in research from synthesis to analysis. The process of reverse engineering is introduced as an aid in program understanding. This process is concerned with the analysis of existing software systems to make them more understandable for maintenance, re-e...

Several knowledge management issues arise during the life-cycle of an interactive system. During the design phase software engineers need to acquire from users and domain experts knowledge about what they need and about the intended use of the interactive system. Subsequently, due to the phenomenon of user and system co-evolution, users modify their needs and/or their ways of using the system: ...

University of Naples [6], Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering [7] and Centre for Software Maintenance [1,2]. These approaches all form their object structures based upon the dominance relations [8]. The dominance relations are obtained in the following way. In a call-directed-acyclic-graph (CDAG) a node px dominates a node py if and only if every path from the initial nod...

Modern automotive control systems are incredibly intricate hybrids of software components and hardware mechanisms. Gaining a sufficient understanding of such a system in order to perform reliable maintenance with predictable results can be quite difficult. This paper discusses three specific challenges related to this task: (1) having tools that provide sufficiently robust analysis to support t...