publications: - title: "On the Evolution Complexity of Design Patterns" author: - name: "Tom Mens" link: "http://staff.umh.ac.be/Mens.Tom/" - name: "Amnon H. Eden" link: "http://www.eden-study.org/" year: "2005" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2004.08.041" abstract: "Software co-evolution can be characterised as a way to “adjust” any given software implementation to a change (“shift”) in the software requirements. In this paper, we propose a formal definition of evolution complexity to precisely quantify the cost of adjusting a particular implementation to a change (“shift”) in the requirements. As a validation, we show that this definition formalises intuition about the evolvability of design patterns." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2004.08.041" tags: - "design complexity" - "software evolution" - "design" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/MensE05" cites: 0 citedby: 0 journal: "ENTCS" volume: "127" number: "3" pages: "147-163" kind: "article" key: "MensE05"