Software evolution and software evolution processes

Annals of Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 275-309

  Lehman, Meir M ^a,b   Ramil, Juan F ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Areas of software evolution; Empirical studies; Feedback; Laws of software evolution; Process improvement; Process modelling; Software evolution theory; SPE program classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036393974     PISSN: 10227091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020557525901     Document Type: Article

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