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When a new release of a component replaces one of its older versions (component upgrade), changes to its interface may invalidate existing component-based applications and require adaptation. To automate the latter, developers usually need to provide adaptation specifications. Whereas writing such specifications is cumbersome and error-prone, maintaining them is even harder, because any evolutionary component change may invalidate existing specifications. We show how the use of a history of structural component changes (refactorings) enables automatic adaptation of existing adaptation specifications; the latter are written once and need not be maintained.
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Şavga, I., Rudolf, M. (2008). Refactoring-Based Adaptation of Adaptation Specifications. In: Lee, R. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70561-1_14
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