August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Law II – Increasing complexity
Over time, as a software system evolves and the number of changes performed on it increases, the complexity of the software system will increase as well unless effort is taken to reduce that complexity. The concept of software entropy was discussed in Chapter 14, Architecting Legacy Applications. Disorder in a software system, known as software entropy, increases as the number of modifications to the system increases.