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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Dampier, David A. | Chadha, Vineet
Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, U.S.A. | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, P.O. Box 116200, 336B Larsen Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611, U.S.A.
Abstract: Software development as an enterprise is at a critical place in history. We are now developing needs for software faster than we can develop solutions. The future of software engineering is in providing computer-aided tools for automating as much of the evolution process as possible, so we can hope to meet the software needs of the future. Our argument is that software should not be built and then maintained, but should be evolved, from the first requirements analysis, to system retirement. If we build software for evolution, it is generally easier to make changes to that software, whether they are corrective, adaptive, or perfective. This paper outlines a method of applying changes to abstract types that extends a previous change-merging method for executable prototypes written in the Prototype System Description Language (PSDL). PSDL prototypes consist of a set of operators and a set of abstract data types. Previous work focused on merging changes to PSDL prototypes consisting of only operators. Our current work is aimed at providing a model for merging changes to PSDL types as well, thus completing the change merging method for complete prototypes. The model outlined in this paper reflects our latest results in this endeavor.
Keywords: Change merging, program integration, abstract data types, classes, software evolution, software automation, multiple inheritance
Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 51-61, 2003
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