Abstract:Retrieving and analyzing information from software repositories and detecting dependencies are important tasks supporting software evolution. Dependency information is used for change impact analysis, defect prediction as well as cohesion and coupling measurement. In this paper we report our experience from extracting dependency information from the change history of a commercial software system. We analyzed the software system's evolution of about six years, from the start of development to the transition to … Show more
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