Report on a workshop on software change and evolution

This paper provides a brief overview and report on the main out-comes of the software change and evolution (SCE99) workshop held in Los Angeles on May 17, 1999, as part of the International Conference on Software Engineering 1999.The purpose of the workshop was to gather the most active of researchers and practitioners in the field of software evolution and change. The overall conclusion of the workshop was that this is a topic of enormous importance to industry, and there is a growing community of both practitioners and researchers who are working in the field. It would therefore make sense to arrange further workshops to support this expanding community.