Title :
API Changes - How FarWould You Go?
Author :
Ilie Savga;Michael Rudolf;Jacek Sliwerski;Jan Lehmann;Harald Wendel
Author_Institution :
Technische Universitat Dresden
fDate :
3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Once a software library is deployed, it is extremely difficult to modify published types. Every new version has to preserve backward compatibility with existing applications. This limits the number of changes that may be applied to the public classes defined in the library. We present a tool that assists developers in maintaining the consistency of a shared library with the existing software. It allows for greater flexibility in evolving the library´s functionality by supporting a wide range of changes
Keywords :
"Software libraries","Application software","Software maintenance","Assembly","Engines","Software tools","Software packages","Enterprise resource planning","Computer languages","Java"
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2007. CSMR ´07. 11th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2802-3
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.2007.13
