Authors
Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, Juan Fernandez-Ramil, Angela Lozano, Michel Wermelinger, Andrea Capiluppi
Publication date
2008
Source
Software evolution
Pages
263-288
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
This chapter surveys a sample of empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution. According to these, the classical findings in proprietary software evolution, such as Lehman’s laws of software evolution, might need to be revised, at least in part, to account for the OSS observations. The book chapter summarises what appears to be the empirical status of each of Lehman’s laws with respect to OSS and highlights the threats to validity that frequently emerge in this type of research.
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