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Lehman’s laws of software evolution have been widely researched and validated but there exists very few studies that verified these laws for databases in open source. Database evolution jeopardize the semantical and syntactical cogency of an applications, but, is their incremental augmentation restrained by the growth and familiarity? To verify this, the current study explores the properties of growth for database evolution by analyzing Lehman’s fifth and sixth law of software evolution: Law of Conservation of Familiarity and Continuous Growth on three open source Java databases spread across 63 releases for 17774 number of bugs. The study found that Lehman’s laws of growth and familiarity applies on Open Source Java databases also and laws were validated by all the datasets.
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Kaur, A., Vig, V. (2017). Validation of Lehman Laws of Growth and Familiarity for Open Source Java Databases. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Raju, K., Janakiramaiah, B. (eds) Computer Communication, Networking and Internet Security. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3226-4_43
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