The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution

Israeli, & Feitelson. (2010). The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution. Journal of Systems and Software.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

DOI

10.1016/j.jss.2009.09.042

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.09.042

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Lehman's law of continuing change
  • This is why Lehman classed OS/360 as an E-type system — one whose operation is interwoven with a real-world context — and made continuing change the first of his eight software-evolution laws, later replicated on open-source systems including the Linux kernel

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