Managing Unanticipated Evolution of Software Architectures

Conditional Graph Rewriting as a Domain-Independent Formalism for Software Evolution

This paper presents a formal approach for managing unanticipated software evolution. Labelled typed nested graphs are used to represent arbitrarily complex software artifacts, and conditional graph rewriting is used for managing evolution of these artifacts. More specifically, we detect structural and behavioural inconsistencies when merging parallel evolutions of the same software artifact. Th...

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Classboxes: Supporting Unanticipated Variation Points in the Source Code

Software product lines refer to engineering techniques for creating a portfolio of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets in a controlled way. Managing variability is the key issue of software product line practice. Modelling variation points is largely addressed by a selection of linguistic constructs and modelling techniques (e.g., design pattern, macro, configuration f...

A Component Based Infrastructure to Develop Software Supporting Dynamic Unanticipated Evolution

This paper presents a component based infrastructure for developing software supporting dynamic unanticipated software evolution. We propose a component model providing mechanisms for managing unpredicted software changes, even at runtime. A Java implementation of the proposed model is also presented. Moreover, a performance evaluation model and an Eclipse-based tool to support composition acti...

Addressing Domain Evolution Challenges in Software Product Lines

It is hard to develop and evolve software product-line architectures (PLAs) for large-scale distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Although certain challenges of PLAs can be addressed by combining model-driven development (MDD) techniques with component frameworks, domain evolution problems remain largely unresolved. In particular, extending or refactoring existing software product-l...