Meir Manny Lehman
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Professor Meir Manny Lehman is known as the "father of software evolution". He was a Professor at Imperial College London from 1972 to 2002. In 2002 he moved to Middlesex University in London. His research contributions include the early realization of the software evolution phenomenon and the so called Lehman's laws of software evolution.
[edit] Laws of software evolution
Lehman is most well known for his eight "Laws of software evolution"[1]. The first two:
- Software must continually evolve, or grow useless, and
- The structure of evolving software tends to degrade.
[edit] See also
- FEAST Publications
- M.M. Lehman. "Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution", Proceedings of the IEEE, pages 1060 - 1076, Sept. 1980 (ieeexplore).
- Sam Williams. "A unified theory of software evolution", Salon.com, 2002.
- "IEEE History Center: Meir Lehman Abstract"
- "Manny Lehman's Home Page"
[edit] References
- ^ "Metrics and laws of software evolution-the nineties view". Proceedings of the IEEE (Sept 1980).
