A Reflective Architecture-Aware Framework to Support Software Evolution

Purpose The development of mobile applications in multiple clouds environment is a complex task because of the lack of platform standards in cloud computing and mobile computing. The source code involves various proprietary programming libraries for different platforms. However, functionalities are inevitably changed over time, as well as the platform. Therefore, a great deal of development effort is required, when changes need to be made at functional and platform level. This paper aims to propose SIMON, a framework that eases complexity of the development to support software evolution. Design/methodology/approach SIMON shields the developer from the complexity of mobile and cloud platforms in the development of mobile applications in multiple clouds environment. The framework uses model of application design to automate the development and support execution of mobile applications in system environment that needs integration to the number of data sources located on multiple clouds. The framework is composed of prefabricated components that support function changeability and platform adaptability. Findings The framework is examined with the development of a sample application. After it is evaluated with scenarios that involve changing at functional and platform levels, the result shows significant reducing of the development effort by comparing with the other approaches. Originality/value The framework facilitates the implementation of mobile applications in the software system that involves integration to multiple clouds, and it supports software evolution with lesser development effort.

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CRUISE: using interface hierarchies to support software evolution

Proceedings. Conference on Software Maintenance, 1988. ◽

10.1109/icsm.1988.10153 ◽

1988 ◽

Author(s):

S. Subramanian

Keyword(s):

Software Evolution ◽

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Computing change of invariants to support software evolution

10.31274/etd-180810-4962 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ashwin Kallingal Joshy

Keyword(s):

Software Evolution ◽

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UTILIZING MULTIFACETED REQUIREMENT TRACEABILITY APPROACH: A CASE STUDY

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ◽

10.1142/s0218194011005372 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 21 (04) ◽

pp. 571-603 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

SITI ROCHIMAH ◽

WAN M. N. WAN KADIR ◽

ABDUL H. ABDULLAH

Keyword(s):

Software Evolution ◽

Process Automation ◽

Multifaceted Approach ◽

Software Artifacts ◽

Limited Support ◽

Before And After ◽

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Requirement Traceability ◽

Better Than

Software evolution is inevitable. When a system evolves, there are certain relationships among software artifacts that must be maintained. Requirement traceability is one of the important factors in facilitating software evolution since it maintains the artifacts relationship before and after a change is performed. Requirement traceability can be expensive activities. Many researchers have addressed the problem of requirement traceability, especially to support software evolution activities. Yet, the evaluation results of these approaches show that most of them typically provide only limited support to software evolution. Based on the problems of requirement traceability, we have identified three directions that are important for traceability to support software evolution, i.e. process automation, procedure simplicity, and best results achievement. Those three directions are addressed in our multifaceted approach of requirement traceability. This approach utilizes three facets to generate links between artifacts, i.e. syntactical similarity matching, link prioritization, and heuristic-list based processes. This paper proposes the utilization of multifaceted approach to traceability generation and recovery in facilitating software evolution process. The complete experiment has been applied in a real case study. The results show that utilization of these three facets in generating the traceability among artifacts is better than the existing approach, especially in terms of its accuracy.

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