Workshop on object-oriented legacy systems and software evolution

Abstract

The increasing reliance on information technology for consumer and industrial goods imposes new requirements on software flexibility. In domains such as telecommunications or logistics, many application variants have to be produced to fulfill the needs of widely different markets and categories of customers. Moreover, these systems must accommodate numerous function enhancements and changes in customers requirements over time. In general, economic and other factors make it increasingly important to view software development as the process of creating families of systems instead of building individual applications.