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Software Architect's Handbook
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Software Architect's Handbook

by Joseph Ingeno
August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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The laws

Observations and behaviors related to the evolution of software that Lehman and his colleagues identified are known as Lehman's laws of software evolution. There are eight laws:

  • Law I: Continuing change
  • Law II: Increasing complexity
  • Law III: Self-regulation
  • Law IV: Conservation of organizational stability
  • Law V: Conservation of familiarity
  • Law VI: Continuing growth
  • Law VII: Declining quality
  • Law VIII: Feedback system

Let's look at each law in more detail.

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