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Zones, contracts and absorbing changes: An approach to software evolution

Evans et al., 1999

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14279157272647412004
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Evans H
Dickman P
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Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications

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This paper describes a novel approach to managing the evolution of distributed, persistent systems at run-time. This is achieved by partitioning a system into disjoint zones, each of which can be evolved without affecting code in any other. Contracts are defined between …
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Evans This paper should be referenced thus: Huw Evans and Peter Dickman. Zones, Contracts and Absorbing Change: An Approach to Software Evolution. In Pro-ceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA’99), volume 34 of SIGPLAN Notices, pages, 415-434, Denver, Colorado, USA, October 1999. ACM. The BibTex is
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