Software Evolution

Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 7-40

  Lehman, Meir ^a   Fernáandez Ramil, Juan C ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intrinsic nature of real world computer usage; Large software systems evolution; Process evolution; Process model evolution; satisfactorily operating software; Software evolution and feedback; Software systems evolution; Software related evolution levels; Telephone industry long term feature evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889476011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470871822.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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