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propagation cost: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

the share of a system's components that a change to one component can reach through direct and indirect dependencies.

In software engineering, propagation cost refers to the share of a system's components that a change to one component can reach through direct and indirect dependencies. This meaning comes from MacCormack (2006) in Management Science.[1]

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References

MacCormack, A., Rusnak, J., & Baldwin, C. Y. (2006). Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code. Management Science, 52(7), 1015-1030. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1060.0552

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