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Measuring the Impact of Different Categories of Software Evolution

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Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura 2008, MetriKon 2008, IWSM 2008)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 5338))

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Software evolution involves different categories of interventions, having variable impact on the code. Knowledge about the expected impact of an intervention is fundamental for project planning and resource allocation. Moreover, deviations from the expected impact may hint for areas of the system having a poor design. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between evolution categories and impacted code by means of a set of metrics computed over time for a subject system.

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  1. Fondazione Bruno Kessler IRST, via Sommarive, 18, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Francesca Longo, Roberto Tiella, Paolo Tonella & Adolfo Villafiorita

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  1. Institute for Distributed Systems, University of Magdeburg, P.O. Box 4120, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Reiner R. Dumke

  2. Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Verteilte Systeme, AG Softwaretechnik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    René Braungarten

  3. Büren & Partner Software-Design GbR, Nürnberg, Germany

    Günter Büren

  4. Département de génie logiciel et des TI, École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, H3C 1K3, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Alain Abran

  5. University of Alcalá, Autovia A-2 km 33.6, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego

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Longo, F., Tiella, R., Tonella, P., Villafiorita, A. (2008). Measuring the Impact of Different Categories of Software Evolution. In: Dumke, R.R., Braungarten, R., Büren, G., Abran, A., Cuadrado-Gallego, J.J. (eds) Software Process and Product Measurement. Mensura MetriKon IWSM 2008 2008 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89403-2_28

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