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regularities observed in long-lived programs, such as continuing change and increasing complexity unless work is done to reduce it.

In software engineering, Lehman's laws of software evolution refers to regularities observed in long-lived programs, such as continuing change and increasing complexity unless work is done to reduce it. This meaning comes from Lehman (1980) in Proceedings of the IEEE.[1]

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Lehman, M. M. (1980). Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution. Proceedings of the IEEE, 68(9), 1060-1076. https://doi.org/10.1109/proc.1980.11805

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