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2010
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13 years 5 months ago
The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution
We use 810 versions of the Linux kernel, released over a period of 14 years, to characterize the system’s evolution, using Lehman’s laws of software evolution as a basis. We i...
Ayelet Israeli, Dror G. Feitelson
UML
2005
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Addressing Domain Evolution Challenges in Software Product Lines
It is hard to develop and evolve software product-line architectures (PLAs) for large-scale distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Although certain challenges of PLAs ca...
Gan Deng, Gunther Lenz, Douglas C. Schmidt
ICSM
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...
Michael W. Godfrey, Qiang Tu
AINA
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Case Study on Software Evolution towards Service-Oriented Architecture
The evolution of any software product over its lifetime is unavoidable, caused both by bugs to be fixed and by new requirements appearing in the later stages of the product's...
Félix Cuadrado, Boni García, Juan C....
METRICS
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View
The process of E-type software development andevolution has proven most difficult to improve, possibly due to the fact that the processis a multi-input, multi-output system involv...
Meir M. Lehman, Juan F. Ramil, Paul Wernick, Deway...