Lehman's laws of software evolution

In software engineering, the laws of software evolution refer to a series of laws that Lehman and Belady formulated starting in 1974 with respect to…

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2005

This research analyzes longitudinal empirical data on commercial software applications to test and better understand how software…

2004

Software systems are growing quickly in needs of functionality, complexity, size and structure. Therefore, it becomes necessary…

2002

We control a population of interacting software agents. The agents have a strategy, and receive a payoff for executing that…

2002

The fundamental characteristic of an E-type system is its need to evolve to satisfy the needs of its users. Most approaches to…

1999

Complete and formally specified COTS components satisfy the definition of S-type systems [1]. Their properties are defined by and…