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Dreaming in Code and the value of constraint

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Dreaming in Code chronicles the troubled history of a software project (an innovative PIM application). It’s a very interesting book, both as an inside look of the development process, and as a great piece of journalistic writing. The team faced many problems and even now 4 years after the initial release, the 0.7alpha4 version is […]

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Lehman’s research project is a an attempt to understand the process of software evolution. The first attempt was in the end of the sixties (Lehman, 1969), where he described the evolution of IBM’s OS/360.

He uses a relationship which is the same as Rosen’s (1985) where E-programms as he calls them model a real-world domain:

“all programs […]

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