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Guest editorial: special section on software maintenance and evolution
2015
Empirical Software Engineering
As described in the IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology (1994), software maintenance is "The process of modifying a software system or component after delivery to correct faults, improve performance or other attributes, or adapt to a changed environment." Since the first studies of software maintenance and evolution, (Lehman 1980; Lehman and Belady 1985) , research in the area has covered a wide variety of topics. Topics range from reverse engineering, program
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