@conference {1002, title = {Studying Versioning Information to Understand Inheritance Hierarchy Changes}, booktitle = {Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR{\textquoteright}07:ICSE Workshops 2007)}, year = {2007}, pages = {16 - 16}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Minneapolis, MN, USA}, abstract = {With the widespread adoption of object-oriented programming, changing the inheritance hierarchy became an inherent part of today{\textquoteright}s software maintenance activities. Unfortunately, little is known about the "state-of-the-practice" with respect to changing an application{\textquoteright}s inheritance hierarchy, and consequently we do not know how the change process can be improved. In this paper, we report on a study of the hierarchy changes stored in a versioning system to explore the answers to three research questions: (1) why are hierarchy changes made? (2) what kind of hierarchy changes are made? (3) what is the impact of these changes? Based on the results of this study, we formulate 7 hypotheses which should be investigated further to make conclusive interpretations on how hierarchy changes fit in the actual change process.}, keywords = {argouml, change management, inheritance, jedit}, isbn = {0-7695-2950-X}, doi = {10.1109/MSR.2007.30}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/28300016.pdf}, author = {Rysselberghe, Filip Van and Demeyer, Serge} }