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Analyzing the evolution of eclipse plugins

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International Conference on Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories table of contents

Leipzig, Germany

SESSION: Mining challenge results table of contents

Pages 133-136

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-024-1

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Michel Wermelinger	The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Yijun Yu	The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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.

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