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One of the most interesting and probably more difficult challenges in developing Software Systems is the modelling of their evolutionary capacity, that is to say, to gather the possibility that the Software Systems will go ahead in the future with the necessary changes to adapt to the environment using a different and new functionality. Modelling this evolution requires to have into account what kind of changes and modifications could follow and support a Software System during its life and also during its development. The evolutionary characteristics of a Software System can be approached by abstract evolutionary models, which can be further formalised. This formalisation makes operational the abstract evolutionary models and allows a kind of representation of the evolutionary process that could support the specification and mapping into concrete specification and implementation tools. These tools further allow us to obtain concrete and functional Software Systems.
This research is supported by a R+D project of the Spanish CICYT (TIC97-0593-C05-04).
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Torres Carbonell, J.J., Parets-Llorca, J. (2000). A Formalisation of the Evolution of Software Systems. In: Kopacek, P., Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST’99. EUROCAST 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10720123_38
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