• DocumentCode
    3862438
  • Title

    API Changes - How FarWould You Go?

  • Author

    Ilie Savga;Michael Rudolf;Jacek Sliwerski;Jan Lehmann;Harald Wendel

  • Author_Institution
    Technische Universitat Dresden
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    3/7/2016 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    329
  • Lastpage
    330
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2007. CSMR ´07. 11th European Conference on
  • ISSN
    1534-5351
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2802-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSMR.2007.13
  • Filename
    4145053
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3862438