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JSS
2010
13 years 3 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 9 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...
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Large multi-platform, multi-million lines of codes software systems evolve to cope with new platform or to meet user ever changing needs. While there has been several studies focu...
IWPSE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Software evolution research has recently focused on new development paradigms, studying whether laws found in more classic development environments also apply. Previous works have...
INFSOF
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Identifying code duplication in large multi-platform software systems is a challenging problem. This is due to a variety of reasons including the presence of high-level programmin...