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Advances in Software Engineering

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Legacy software systems are typically complex, geriatric, and difficult to change, having evolved over decades and having passed through many developers. Nevertheless, these systems are mature, heavily used, and constitute massive corporate assets.

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Finnigan, P. et al. (2002). The Software Bookshelf. In: Erdogmus, H., Tanir, O. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21599-0_14

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