Collaborative software evolution

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The objective of this research is to increase the effectiveness of software teams in developing next generation interactive systems. A key aspect is the ability to effectively change software in all stages of the software life cycle in response to changing business and technological requirements, and to adapt to user interaction.The research will explore how software changes, how software can be designed to accommodate change, and how team-based development can be coordinated to efficiently affect change. To this end, I will investigate automated software engineering and computer science techniques to facilitate software change, either when the software is being designed or when the system is running.The research addresses software evolution issues of large-scale software systems, but will focus on next generation interactive systems in particular. The interactive systems to be investigated are characterized by their use of aspects such as: novel interaction techniques; 3D graphics; interactive simulation; end user languages; and the utilization of large high resolution display spaces.Models, notations, tools and techniques will be developed using case studies. Formal language processing and software analysis techniques will be used to support automated change of large-scale software systems by software development teams.