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ASWEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper we study the evolution of seven sizable open...
JMLC
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2000
Springer
The principle of modularisation is one of the main techniques that software designers use to tame the complexity of programming. A software project, however, is complex in many oth...
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2001
ACM
JSS
2010
13 years 5 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
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2000
IEEE
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...