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METRICS
1997
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1997
IEEE
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...
JSS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
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...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
SOFTVIS
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2005
ACM
Observing the evolution of very large software systems is difficult because of the sheer amount of information that needs to be analyzed and because the changes performed in the s...
IWPSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
Visualizing software evolution is essential for identifying design erosions that have occurred over the past releases. Making evolutionary aspects explicit via visual representati...