Software evolution is a phase in the software lifecycle where major changes in software are made. Incremental change adds new functionality to software and is one of the key principles of software evolution. This paper presents a methodology for ...
Software ages. It does so in relation to surrounding software components: as those are updated and modernized,
static software becomes evermore outdated relative to them. Such legacy systems are either tried to be
kept alive, or they are updated ...
Upon introducing a local change in a method or a class in an object oriented program, the ripple effect gives a measure of the amount by which this change may affect other methods/classes. That is, the ripple effect shows maintainers the ramifications ...
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