Meir Manny Lehman

Meir Manny Lehman

__NOTOC__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.

Laws of software evolution

Lehman is most well known for his eight "Laws of software evolution" cite web|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=637156 |title="Metrics and laws of software evolution-the nineties view"|date=Sept 1980 |publisher=Proceedings of the IEEE] . The first two:

# Software must continually evolve, or grow useless, and
# The structure of evolving software tends to degrade.

ee also

* Sam Williams

External links

* [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/feast2/papers.html FEAST Publications]
* [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/freesrchabstract.jsp?arnumber=1456074&isnumber=31293&punumber=5&k2dockey=1456074@ieeejrns&query=%28programs++life+cycles+and+laws+of+software+evolution%29%3Cin%3Emetadata&pos=1 IEEExplore]
* [http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/08/lehman/index.html A unified theory of software evolution] , Salon.com, 2002.
* [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/abstracts/lehmanab.html IEEE History Center: Meir Lehman Abstract]
* [http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/mml/ Manny Lehman's Home Page]

References

* M.M. Lehman. "Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution", "Proceedings of the IEEE", pages 1060–1076, September 1980


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