Analyzing the evolution of eclipse plugins

TitleAnalyzing the evolution of eclipse plugins
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsWermelinger, M, Yu, Y
Secondary TitleProceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories
Pagination133–136
PublisherACM
Place PublishedNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-60558-024-1
Keywordsarchitectural evolution, cvs, eclipse, metadata, msr challenge, releases, source code
Abstract

Eclipse is a good example of a modern component-based complex system that is designed for long-term evolution, due to its architecture of reusable and extensible components. This paper presents our preliminary results about the evolution of Eclipse's architecture, based on a lightweight and scalable analysis of the metadata in Eclipse's sources. We find that the development of Eclipse follows a systematic process: most architectural changes take place in milestones, and maintenance releases only make exceptional changes to component dependencies. We also found a stable architectural core that remains since the first release.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1370750.1370783
DOI10.1145/1370750.1370783
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