
During the last few years, software evolution research has explored new domains such as the study of socio-technical aspects and collaboration between different individuals contributing to a software system, the use of search-based techniques and meta-heuristics, the mining...

Part I Evolving Software Artefacts.- 1 An Overview of Requirements Evolution.- 2 Coupled Evolution of Software Meta models and Models.- 3 Software Product Quality Models.- Part II Techniques.- 4 Search Based Software Maintenance: Methods and Tools.- 5 Mining Unstructured Software...