Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution—The Nineties View.¶
Lehman, M. M., Ramil, J. F., Wernick, P. D., Perry, D. E., & Turski, W. M. (1997). Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution—The Nineties View. Proceedings of the 4th International Software Metrics Symposium, 20-32.
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- Retention Under Removal Uncertainty
- The prime also supports reasoning about when status-quo accumulation crosses a phase boundary: a codebase, regulatory code, or database stays tractable while vestigial mass is small and becomes structurally illegible past some threshold beyond which every reader must wade through dead material to find the live material.
This sourceStates the laws of software evolution, including increasing complexity and declining quality as a system accretes material unless work is done to reduce it.
- The prime also supports reasoning about when status-quo accumulation crosses a phase boundary: a codebase, regulatory code, or database stays tractable while vestigial mass is small and becomes structurally illegible past some threshold beyond which every reader must wade through dead material to find the live material.
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