Evolutionary changes applied to a framework API may invalidate existing framework-based applications. While manually adapting applications is expensive and error-prone, automatic adaptation demands cumbersome specifications, which the developers are reluctant to write and maintain. Moreover, intrusive update of existing applications via modifying their implementations may be impossible at all, in case their sources or binaries are unavailable, or software licenses forbid their change. Instead of directly modifying dependent applications, we rely on adapters as unintrusive means...
Evolutionary changes applied to a framework API may invalidate existing framework-based applications. While manually adapting applications is expen...