An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software evolution

An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software evolution

Dam, K, Winikoff, M and Padgham, L 2006, 'An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software evolution', in J. Han and M. Staples (ed.) Proceedings of the 2006 Australian software engineering conference, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April 2006.

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Title	An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software evolution
Author(s)	Dam, K Winikoff, M Padgham, L
Year	2006
Conference name	Australian Software Engineering Conference
Conference location	Sydney, Australia
Conference dates	18-21 April 2006
Proceedings title	Proceedings of the 2006 Australian software engineering conference
Editor(s)	J. Han M. Staples
Publisher	IEEE
Place of publication	Piscataway, USA
Abstract	Software maintenance and evolution are inevitable activities since almost all software that is useful and successful stimulates user-generated requests for change and improvements. One of the most critical problems in software maintenance and evolution is to maintain consistency between software artefacts by propagating changes correctly. Although many approaches have been proposed, automated change propagation is still a significant technical challenge in software engineering. In this paper we present a novel, agent-oriented approach to deal with change propagation in evolving software systems that are developed using the Prometheus methodology. A meta-model with a set of the object constraint language (OCL) rules forms the basis of the proposed framework. The underlying change propagation mechanism of our framework is based on the well-known Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agent architecture. Traceability information and design heuristics are also incorporated into the framework to facilitate the change propagation process.
Subjects	Software Engineering
Keyword(s)	change propagation evolution prometheus methodology software
Copyright notice	© 2006 IEEE
ISBN	0-7695-2551-2

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