| An Overview of Some Lessons Learnt in FEAST (2002) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Introduction Juan F Ramil Computing Dept., Faculty of Maths & Computing The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, U.K. j.f. ramilopen.ac.uk The FEAST (Feedback, Evolution And Software Technology) project was set up in October 1996 to investigate the feedback nature of software evolution processes and its practical implications [leh96]. The hypothesis underlying this project stated that to improve real world software processes one must take explicitly into account the multi-loop feedback structure of such processes [leh94,98a]. Feedback is intrinsic to the evolution of E-type programs. Though initially intended to investigate this hypothesis and its practical implications, the project was broadened to study software evolution as aphenomenon in its own right. With the conclusion of FEAST/1 in September 1998, a follow on investigation, FEAST/2, [leh98b] was launched in April 1999. This extension terminated in March 2001, though the Imperial College based group continu | |||||||||||||||||
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