Title :
Evolution stability through COTS integration
Abstract :
Rather than being a major (and uncontrollable) source of instability to a COTS extension, upgrades of COTS products - over a ten year period - have produced little or no impact on our extensions. We hypothesize that this evolution stability is not an accident, but rather the result of the architectures in which those extensions were developed.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; distributed object management; graphical user interfaces; software maintenance; software packages; software prototyping; API; COTS integration; GUI; application program interfaces; commercial off the shelf; distributed object management; evolution stability; graphical user interfaces; software architecture; Accidents; Binary codes; Conferences; Graphical user interfaces; Internet; Operating systems; Scalability; Stability; Usability; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Software Evolution, 2003. Proceedings. Sixth International Workshop on Principles of
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1903-2
DOI :
10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231210
