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22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'06)
Properties of Signature Change Patterns
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 24-September 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2354-4
Sunghun Kim, University of California, Santa Cruz
E. James Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jr., Jennifer Bevan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Understanding function signature change properties and evolution patterns is important for researchers concerned with alleviating signature change impacts, understanding software evolution, and predicting future evolution patterns. We provide detailed signature change properties by analyzing seven software project histories to reveal multiple properties of signature changes, including their kind, frequency, correlation with other changes, number of parameter changes, and evolution patterns of signature change kinds. We show that signature changes can be used as measurement aid for software evolution analysis.
Citation:
Sunghun Kim, E. James Whitehead, Jr., Jennifer Bevan, "Properties of Signature Change Patterns," icsm, pp.4-13, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'06), 2006
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