Program evolution and its impact on software engineering
ICSE '76 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering
Rules and Tools for Software Evolution Planning and Management
Annals of Software Engineering
Software engineering economics
Software pioneers
Software evolution: background, theory, practice
Information Processing Letters - Special issue: Contribution to computing science
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Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution
Journal of Systems and Software
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Data on the history of seven systems was analysed to statistically test the 5 laws of software evolution proposed first by Belady and Lehman in 1976. While there was some evidence supporting laws 1 and 2, laws 3-5 were not supported by the data. In the light of the result a new discontinuous model of software evolution is proposed to replace the smoothly changing continuous model proposed by Lehman.