A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Empirical Approach to Studying Software Evolution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Growth, evolution, and structural change in open source software
IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Laws of Software Evolution Revisited
EWSPT '96 Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Software Process Technology
Evolution in Open Source Software: A Case Study
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics on Open Source Software for Fault Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Evolution in software systems: foundations of the SPE classification scheme: Research Articles
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution
Journal of Systems and Software
The evolution of mobile apps: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Software Development Lifecycle for Mobile
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Software needs to evolve in order to be used for a longer period. The changes corresponding to corrective, preventive, adaptive and perfective maintenance leads to software evolution. In this paper we are presenting the results of study conducted on 13 versions of JHot Draw and 16 versions of Rhino released over the period of 10 years. We measured Object Oriented Metrics and studied the changes in the measured values over different releases of two medium sized software developed using Java. We also investigated the applicability of Lehman's Law of Software Evolution on Object Oriented Software Systems using different measures. We found that Lehman's laws related with increasing complexity and continuous growth are supported by the data and computed metrics measure.