Software evolution - Background, theory, practice

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 33-44

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

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best practice; Laws of software evolution; Safety security in digital systems; Software design and implementation; Software engineering; Software evolution; Software process; Software uncertainty principle; Theory of software evolution

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SECURITY OF DATA;

SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0043285879     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0190(03)00382-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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