Co-evolving code-related and database-related changes in a data-intensive software system

[en] Current empirical studies on the evolution of software systems are primarily analysing source code. Sometimes, social aspects such as the activity of contributors are considered as well. Very few studies, however, focus on data-intensive software systems (DISS), in which a significant part of the total development effort is devoted to maintaining and evolving the database schema. We report on early results obtained in the empirical analysis of the co-evolution between code-related and database-related activities in a large open source DISS. As a case study, we have analysed OSCAR, for which the historical information spanning many years is available in a Git repository.

Research center :

CREMMI - Modélisation mathématique et informatique

Disciplines :

Computer science
Electrical & electronics engineering
Library & information sciences

Author, co-author :

Goeminne, Mathieu ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Génie Logiciel

Decan, Alexandre ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Systèmes d'information

Mens, Tom ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Génie Logiciel

Language :

English

Title :

Co-evolving code-related and database-related changes in a data-intensive software system

Publication date :

03 February 2014

Event name :

IEEE CSMR-WCRE 2014 Software Evolution Week

Event place :

Antwerpen, Belgium

Event date :

2014

Research unit :

S852 - Génie Logiciel

Research institute :

R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique
R150 - Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Complexes

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