Software must be constantly adapted to changing requirements. The time scale, abstraction
level and granularity of adaptations may vary from short-term, fine-grained adaptation to …

Programming idioms, design patterns and application libraries often introduce cumbersome
and repetitive boilerplate code to a software system. Language extensions and external …

Tomorrow's eternal software system will co-evolve with their context: their metamodels must
adapt at runtime to ever-changing external requirements. In this paper we present FAME, a …

Unit testing is often made more difficult by the heavy use of classes as namespaces and the
proliferation of static methods to encapsulate configuration code. We have analyzed the use …

Medical research but also quality management is based upon medical data. The integration,
validation, processing, and exploration of this data is known to be a technical obstacle for …

Lint-like program checkers are popular tools that ensure code quality by verifying
compliance with best practices for a particular programming language. The proliferation of …

An ever-increasing demand for information systems in the last few decades brought many
new opportunities but also presented new challenges for companies in the landscape of …

In contrast to traditional, industrial applications such as market basket analysis, the process
of knowledge discovery in medical research is mostly performed by the medical domain …

In this paper we describe the main features of EMF Parsley, a new Eclipse project for
implementing applications based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). EMF Parsley …

The biggest challenge facing software developers today is how to gracefully evolve complex
software systems in the face of changing requirements. We clearly need software systems to …