Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution

Details Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution

2003-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307201v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, LaTeX, 2 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.067103

The approach based on paradigm of self-organized criticality proposed for experimental investigation and theoretical modelling of software evolution. The dynamics of modifications studied for three free, open source programs Mozilla, Free-BSD and Emacs using the data from version control systems. Scaling laws typical for the self-organization criticality found. The model of software evolution presenting the natural selection principle is proposed. The results of numerical and analytical investigation of the model are presented. They are in a good agreement with the data collected for the real-world software.

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