Program evolution: processes of software change
Program evolution: processes of software change
Software processes are software too
ICSE '87 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Engineering
Uncertainty in computer application and its control through the engineering of software
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Programming perl
Predicting (Individual) Software Productivity
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software project dynamics: an integrated approach
Software project dynamics: an integrated approach
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
Detection of abrupt changes: theory and application
Detection of abrupt changes: theory and application
Systems, models and measures
Evolution of systems under fuzzy dynamic laws
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
A model of noisy software engineering data (status report)
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Program development by stepwise refinement
Communications of the ACM
Statistical Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment
Statistical Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment
Elements of Software Process Assessment & Improvement
Elements of Software Process Assessment & Improvement
Rules and Tools for Software Evolution Planning and Management
Annals of Software Engineering
The FEAST Approach to Quantitative Process Modelling of Software Evolution Processes
PROFES '00 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
On Evidence Supporting the FEAST Hypothesis and the Laws of Software Evolution
METRICS '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Implications of Evolution Metrics on Software Maintenance
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
ICSM '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Metrics of Software Evolution as Effort Predictors - A Case Study
ICSM '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'00)
Process measurement through process modeling and simulation
ISPW '96 Proceedings of the 10th International Software Process Workshop
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The FEAST/1 (1996-1998) and FEAST/2 (1999-2001) projects have been investigating the role and impact of feedback and feedback-based system dynamics as reflected by attributes of the long term evolution of industrial software and the behaviour of the processes that evolve them. The investigation was triggered by the hypothesis that, with the possible exception of the least mature processes, software processes are multi-agent, multi-level, multi-loop feedback systems that must be managed as such to achieve sustained process improvement. This paper summarises some of the findings of the FEAST projects to date with emphasis on the process modelling methodology that were adopted and that have evolved over the duration of the two projects. Such procedures encompass both metric based black-box and white-box (system dynamics) behavioural modelling. It will also draw attention to the practical industrial application of the results obtained in the form of over thirty-five rules and guidelines for software evolution planning and management.