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ASWEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 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 7 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 5 months ago
2001
ACM
JSS
2010
13 years 2 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 8 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...