Laws and principles of evolution

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The understanding of system evolution is of fundamental importance to the software engineering enterprise. Lehman´s Laws have been a fundamental and seminal start on the road to that understanding. However, we have a long way to go. We need more instances of systems and their evolution. We need more attributes of those evolutions. We need related process and organizational data. It is a research area that is a rich field that will yield a deep understanding of the phenomena of system evolution. But, we have a long way to go and a lot of work to do.

Keywords

configuration management; formal specification; object-oriented programming; program slicing; program testing; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software metrics; software tools; systems re-engineering; OO program analysis; Web reengineering; configuration management; distributed systems; formal models; impact analysis; program comprehension; regression testing; remote software maintenance; slicing; software evolution; software maintenance; software metrics; source code manipulation; space vehicle repair; testability; testing; tools; Engineering management; Feedback control; Large-scale systems; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1819-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2002.1167751

Filename

1167751