Adoption-centric software evolution
Ying Zou · 2004
Software systems are continuously being evolved to meet their user's changing requirements. To prevent the decline of software quality during the evolution, it is critical to aim for an adoption-centric evolution process. Adoption-centric evolution refers to evolution activities that allow for target requirements and adoption criteria to be considered as part of the evolution and system transformation process. In this position paper, we aim to address three major issues for such an adoption-centric software evolution framework, namely, software quality modeling, its operationalization in the evolution process, and its evaluation in the new migrant system.