Supporting Evolution Recovery: a Query-based Approach
Sté́phane Ducasse, Michele Lanza, Lukas Steiger · BORIS (University Library Bern)
As software industry is shifting its focus from monolithic application development towards the use of frameworks and system families because of the higher reusability, the understanding of the evolution of a software system has grown in importance. The major problem which in this context is the management of the huge quantity of information in a meaningful way. We are currently exploring recovery of evolution information by means of queries over several versions of a system. This paper describes our approach and focuses on the advantages and drawbacks, as well as our future work in the area of software evolution.