An Evolution Process for Application Frameworks

Application frameworks, as occurs with any software, evolve as they are used. The initial versions often do not satisfy all the domain requirements for which the framework has been built, thus, soon after the framework is released for use, the evolution process starts. As it is a generic architecture of a domain, framework maintenance activities differ from maintenance activities of conventional applications. An evolution process for application frameworks, comprising eight steps, is proposed. This process is based on the evolution of a framework for the information systems domain.

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