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Evolution of XSD Documents and Their Variability During Project Life Cycle: A Preliminary Study

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Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016 (ICCSA 2016)

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During a software system life cycle, project modifications occur for different reasons. Regarding web services, communication contracts modifications are equally common, which induces the need for adaptation in every system node. To help reduce the contracts changing impact over software source code, it is necessary to understand how these contract changes occur. This paper presents a preliminary study on the evaluation of the change history of different open-source projects that defines XSD documents, specifying metrics for such files, extracting them by software repository mining and analyzing their evolution during the project life cycle. Based on the results, and considering that Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) contracts use XSD, a deeper study focused on web services projects only is further proposed to assess what exactly is changed at each contract revision, possibly revealing changing tendencies to support easy-to-adapt web service development.

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Notes

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    XSDMiner is freely available as an Eclipse project at: http://github.com/diegobenincasa/XSDMiner.

  2. 2.

    The script is also available at XSDMiner repository at GitHub.

  3. 3.

    Available at https://searchcode.com.

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  1. National Institute for Space Research, São José Dos Campos, SP, Brazil

    Diego Benincasa Fernandes Cavalcanti de Almeida & Eduardo Martins Guerra

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  1. Diego Benincasa Fernandes Cavalcanti de Almeida
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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  5. Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo M. Torre

  6. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  7. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Elena Stankova

  9. Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm., Beijing, China

    Shangguang Wang

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de Almeida, D.B.F.C., Guerra, E.M. (2016). Evolution of XSD Documents and Their Variability During Project Life Cycle: A Preliminary Study. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_28

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