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IWPSE
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Stability and Volatility in the Linux Kernel
Packages are the basic units of release and reuse in software development. The contents and boundaries of packages should therefore be chosen to minimize change propagation and ma...
John Champaign, Andrew J. Malton, Xinyi Dong
JSS
2010
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13 years 3 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