Background Software evolution is an important topic in software engineering. It generally
deals with large amounts of data, as one must look at whole project histories as opposed to …

Coping with huge amounts of data is one of the major problems in the context of software
evolution. Current approaches reduce this complexity by filtering out irrelevant information …

The analysis of the evolution of large software systems is challenging for many reasons,
such as the retrieval and processing of historical information and the large quantity of data …

When reengineering software systems, maintainers should be able to assess and compare
multiple change scenarios for a given goal, so as to choose the most pertinent one. Because …

Software evolution visualization is a promising technique for assessing the software
development process. We study how complex correlations of software evolution attributes …

Gaining higher level evolutionary information about large software systems is a key
challenge in dealing with increasing complexity and decreasing software quality. Software …

Software visualization is concerned with the static visualization as well as the animation of
software artifacts, such as source code, executable programs, and the data they manipulate …

Abstract Context: Variant-Rich Systems (VRSs), such as Software Product Lines or variants
created through clone & own, aim at reusing existing assets. The long lifespan of families of …

Features encapsulate the domain knowledge of a software system and thus are valuable
sources of information for a reverse engineer. When analyzing the evolution of a system, we …

Software evolution research has focused mostly on analyzing the evolution of single
software systems. However, it is rarely the case that a project exists as standalone …