The process of E-type software development and evolution has
proven most difficult to improve, possibly due to the fact that the
process is a multi-input, multi-output system involving feedback at many
levels. This observation, first recorded in the early 1970s during an
extended study of OS/360 evolution, was recently captured in a FEAST
(Feedback, Evolution And Software Technology) hypothesis: a hypothesis
being studied in on-going two-year project, FEAST/1. Preliminary
conclusions based on a study of a financial transaction system-Logica's
Fastwire (FW)-are outlined and compared with those reached during the
earlier OS/360 study. The new analysis supports, or better does not
contradict, the laws of software evolution, suggesting that the 1970s
approach to metric analysis of software evolution is still relevant
today. It is hoped that FEAST/1 will provide a foundation for mastering
the feedback aspects of the software evolution process, opening up new
paths for process modelling and improvement
%0 Conference Paper
%1 lehman97sms
%A Lehman, M.M.
%A Ramil, J.F.
%A Wernick, P.D.
%A Perry, D.E.
%A Turski, W.M.
%B International Software Metrics Symposium
%C Albuquerque, NM
%D 1997
%K evolution metrics software
%P 20-32
%T Metrics and laws of software evolution-the nineties view
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/METRIC.1997.637156
%X The process of E-type software development and evolution has
proven most difficult to improve, possibly due to the fact that the
process is a multi-input, multi-output system involving feedback at many
levels. This observation, first recorded in the early 1970s during an
extended study of OS/360 evolution, was recently captured in a FEAST
(Feedback, Evolution And Software Technology) hypothesis: a hypothesis
being studied in on-going two-year project, FEAST/1. Preliminary
conclusions based on a study of a financial transaction system-Logica's
Fastwire (FW)-are outlined and compared with those reached during the
earlier OS/360 study. The new analysis supports, or better does not
contradict, the laws of software evolution, suggesting that the 1970s
approach to metric analysis of software evolution is still relevant
today. It is hoped that FEAST/1 will provide a foundation for mastering
the feedback aspects of the software evolution process, opening up new
paths for process modelling and improvement
@inproceedings{lehman97sms,
abstract = {The process of E-type software development and evolution has
proven most difficult to improve, possibly due to the fact that the
process is a multi-input, multi-output system involving feedback at many
levels. This observation, first recorded in the early 1970s during an
extended study of OS/360 evolution, was recently captured in a FEAST
(Feedback, Evolution And Software Technology) hypothesis: a hypothesis
being studied in on-going two-year project, FEAST/1. Preliminary
conclusions based on a study of a financial transaction system-Logica's
Fastwire (FW)-are outlined and compared with those reached during the
earlier OS/360 study. The new analysis supports, or better does not
contradict, the laws of software evolution, suggesting that the 1970s
approach to metric analysis of software evolution is still relevant
today. It is hoped that FEAST/1 will provide a foundation for mastering
the feedback aspects of the software evolution process, opening up new
paths for process modelling and improvement},
added-at = {2009-04-09T00:26:32.000+0200},
address = {Albuquerque, NM},
author = {Lehman, M.M. and Ramil, J.F. and Wernick, P.D. and Perry, D.E. and Turski, W.M.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25285800d4b04fc5f755cbf50abf18860/neilernst},
booktitle = {International Software Metrics Symposium},
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intrahash = {5285800d4b04fc5f755cbf50abf18860},
keywords = {evolution metrics software},
month = Nov,
pages = {20-32},
timestamp = {2009-04-09T00:26:32.000+0200},
title = {Metrics and laws of software evolution-the nineties view},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/METRIC.1997.637156},
year = 1997
}