Software development and maintenance accompany several challenges related to change
management. Identifying dependencies of change-prone classes helps to manage the after …

In software development, changes are continuously performed and stream of change-
commits are generated during the evolution of software systems. Such stream of change …

Software systems are subject to series of changes during their evolution as they move from
one release to the next. The change histories of software systems hold useful information …

Due to various reasons such as ever increasing demands of the customer or change in the
environment or detection of a bug, changes are incorporated in a software. This results in …

Object-oriented (OO) software have complex dependencies and different change types
which frequently affect their maintenance in terms of ripple-effects identification or may likely …

Software maintenance deals with changes or modifications which software goes through.
Change prediction models help in identification of classes/modules which are prone to …

The object‐oriented software systems frequently evolve to meet new change requirements.
Understanding the characteristics of changes aids testers and system designers to improve …

As the software industry has matured, we have shifted our resources from being devoted to
developing new software systems to making modifications in evolving software systems. A …

This article describes how predicting change-prone classes is essential for effective
development of software. Evaluating changes from one release of software to the next can …

ABSTRACT Classes in Object Oriented Systems are continuously subjected to changes and
defect prone. Predicting such classes is a key research area in the field of software …