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Maintenance and agile development: Challenges, opportunities and future directions
2009
2009 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenges for organizations that have moved to agile methods from other processes, despite agile's focus on adaptability and responsiveness to change. We have investigated this issue through an industrial case study, and reviewed the literature addressing software entropy, focusing on the detection of "code smells" and their
doi:10.1109/icsm.2009.5306278
dblp:conf/icsm/HanssenYCM09
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