Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

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C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_4

4. Defining Productivity in Software Engineering

Stefan Wagner¹  and Florian Deissenboeck²

(1)

University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

(2)

CQSE GmbH, Munich, Germany

 

Successful software systems are subject to perpetual change as they need to be continuously improved and adapted to continuously changing requirements. Software evolution is the term used in software engineering to refer to this process of developing software initially and then repeatedly updating it. It is an essential goal to minimize the cost and to maximize the benefits of software evolution. In addition to financial ...