Business oriented software understanding, development and evolution

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Rapid changes to business requirements are forcing organizations to reengineer their business processes and to evolve their supporting software systems. The agility and evolvability of software are becoming increasingly important at each stage of the software life cycle. If such characteristics are ignored, software systems will deteriorate and will eventually be abandoned and rewritten with large costs to their owning organization. The objective of our research is to support the understanding, development and evolution of long lived software systems. Specifically, our research aims to maintain the consistency of business processes and source code, and to develop agile software systems that are responsive to changing business processes. Moreover, our research will create tools and techniques to ensure that the quality of software systems remains at satisfactory levels.