On The Investigation of Software Development and Evolution Practices

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Markos Viggiato de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Domínio de Software; Alteração de Código; Algoritmo de mineração Frequent Itemset; Plataforma de Software; Estudo de Entrevista; Engenharia de Software; Algoritmo de mineração; Computação; Domínio de software; Plataforma de software
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ESBF-BA8NXT

Software engineering is a diverse field composed of different platforms and domains with a large variety of people involved in all stages of the development. Software platform refers to the underlying structure where the software is built on (e.g., Android) and software domains refer to systems developed for specific segments (e.g., healthcare). Understanding patterns of evolution of mobile and non-mobile software may support developers and companies within the open source software context. Revealing how development practices are adopted across domains may give new research directions and insights for industry professionals. In this Master Thesis, we investigate development and evolution practices using a mixed-method. Initially, we rely on the Frequent Itemset mining algorithm to analyze the co-evolution of code changes. We then interview cross-domain developers from the industry. Our findings show that different platforms and domains require practices to be applied in different ways.