Consistent Evolution of UML Models by Automatic Detection of Change Traces
Carlos Dantas, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta, Cláudia Maria Lima Werner · 2006
As software evolves, analysis and design models should be modified, correspondingly. In this scenario, one of the main problems is to detect which elements should be changed due to a given change. This paper presents an approach that applies data mining over a versioned UML repository in order to detect change patterns among model elements at different abstraction levels. These patterns are presented to the software engineer together with contextual information obtained from a change control system, so he can decide the software evolution task at hand.