Dynamical evolution analysis of the object-oriented software systems

Author

Li, Huan ; Huang, Beibei ; Lü, Jinhu

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Software Eng., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan

fYear

2008

fDate

1-6 June 2008

Firstpage

3030

Lastpage

3035

Abstract

Software evolution and update play a vital role in software engineering. It has many advantages, such as improving the efficiency of programming, reducing the cost of maintenance and promoting the development of software systems. This paper further analyzes the evolution and update processes of three typical kinds of real-world object-oriented software systems by using the tools of complex networks. It discovers some underlying dynamical evolution characteristics and rules of the object- oriented software systems. These results are very useful for the design and development of the object-oriented software systems.

Keywords

evolutionary computation; object-oriented methods; software engineering; dynamical evolution analysis; maintenance cost reduction; object-oriented software systems; software engineering; software evolution; software systems development; Complex networks; Computer science; Costs; History; Maintenance engineering; Network topology; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE Congress on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1822-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1823-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEC.2008.4631207

Filename

4631207