Applying information theory to software evolution

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: TORRES, Adriano, BALTES, Sebastian, TREUDE, Christoph, WAGNER, Markus
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• الموضوعات: entropy; Information theory; software engineering; Software Engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8893; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9896/viewcontent/adriano.pdf

Although information theory has found success in disciplines, the literature on its applications to software evolution is limit. We are still missing artifacts that leverage the data and tooling available to measure how the information content of a project can be a proxy for its complexity. In this...