Trends in object-oriented software evolution: Investigating network properties

DOI 10.1109/icse.2012.6227092 dblp

Abstract

The rise of social networks and the accompanying interest to study their evolution has stimulated a number of research efforts to analyze their growth patterns by means of network analysis. The inherent graph-like structure of object-oriented systems calls for the application of the corresponding methods and tools to analyze software evolution. In this paper we investigate network properties of two open-source systems and observe interesting phenomena regarding their growth. Relating the observed evolutionary trends to principles and laws of software design enables a highlevel assessment of tendencies in the underlying design quality.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Chatzigeorgiou-Melas:ICSE12,
  author    = {Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and
               George Melas},
  title     = {Trends in object-oriented software evolution: Investigating network properties},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {1309--1312},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2012},
}

Trends in object-oriented software evolution: Investigating network properties

Abstract

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