Objectives
The Working Group on Software Evolution is one of the many working groups supported by ERCIM.
Research Context
Numerous scientific studies of large-scale software systems have shown that the bulk of the total software-development cost is devoted to software maintenance. This is mainly due to the fact that software systems need to evolve continually to cope with ever-changing software requirements. Today, this is more than ever the case. Nevertheless, existing tools that try to provide support for evolution have many limitations. They are (programming) language dependent, not scalable, difficult to integrate with other tools, and they lack formal foundations.
Goals
The main goal of the proposed WG is to identify a set of formally-founded techniques and associated tools to support software developers with the common problems they encounter when evolving large and complex software systems. With this initiative, we plan to become a Virtual European Research and Training Centre on Software Evolution.
This page is intented to collect all scientific articles that have been published in collaboration between at least two member institutes of the WG. It also collects publications that have been written for WG dissemination purposes. If you are the author of such a publication, or if you aware of such publications, please send all relevant details to the maintainer of this webpage so that it can be kept up to date.