The second law of thermodynamics, in principle, states that a closed system's disorder cannot be reduced, it can only remain unchanged or increase. A measure of this disorder is entropy. This law also seems plausible for software systems; as a system is modified, its disorder, or entropy, always increases.
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- The second law of thermodynamics, in principle, states that a closed system's disorder cannot be reduced, it can only remain unchanged or increase. A measure of this disorder is entropy. This law also seems plausible for software systems; as a system is modified, its disorder, or entropy, always increases. This is known as software entropy (See Jacobson) Within software development, there are similar theories; see Lehman (1985), who suggested a number of laws, of which two were, basically, as follows: A computer program that is used will be modified When a program is modified, its complexity will increase, provided that one does not actively work against this Andrew Hunt and David Thomas use Fixing Broken Windows as a metaphor for avoiding software entropy in software development. The process of code refactoring can result in stepwise reductions in software entropy.
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- The second law of thermodynamics, in principle, states that a closed system's disorder cannot be reduced, it can only remain unchanged or increase. A measure of this disorder is entropy. This law also seems plausible for software systems; as a system is modified, its disorder, or entropy, always increases.
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