Advances in Software Engineering: Comprehension, Evaluation, and Evolution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387951091 ISBN 13: 9780387951096

Publisher: Springer, 2001

Synopsis

Software engineering is a rapidly growing and changing field. Over the last dec­ ade, it has gained significant popularity, and it is now heralded as a discipline of its own. This edited collection presents recent advances in software engineering in the areas of evolution, comprehension, and evaluation. The theme of the book addresses the increasing need to understand and assess software systems in order to measure their quality, maintain them, adapt them to changing requirements and technology, and migrate them to new platforms. This need can be satisfied by studying how software systems are built and maintained, by finding new paradigms, and by building new tools to support the activities involved in devel­ oping contemporary software systems. The contributions to the book are from major results and findings of leading researchers, under the mandate of the Consortium for Software Engineering Re­ search (CSER). CSER has been in existence since 1996. The five founding in­ dustrial and academic partners wanted to create a research environment that would appeal to the applied nature of the industrial partners, as well as to ad­ vance the state of the art and develop fresh expertise. The research projects of the Consortium are partially funded by the industrial partners, and partially by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Technical and administrative management of the Consortium is provided by the National Research Council of Canada-specifically by members of the Software Engi­ neering Group ofthe Institute for Information Technology.

About this title

Synopsis

The proposed volume will contain both practically usable research as well as reviews of different areas of interest in the software engineering literature, such as clone identification. The contents of the various sections will provide a better understanding of known problems as well as detailed treatment of advanced topics. Consequently the book consolidates the work and findings from leading researchers in the software research community. The book is relevant to real-world problems and not merely based on toy examples; many of the chapters include results and examples of industrial-strength software. A chapter is dedicated to tools that can readily be used in addressing many of the problems encountered with software. Some of the key software engineering topics addressed are maintainability, architectural recovery, code analysis, software migration, empirical studies, and tool support.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387951091
• ISBN 13: 9780387951096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 495
• Editor: Erdogmus Hakan, Tanir Oryal