Decentralized Software Evolution
Peyman Oreizy, Richard N. Taylor · 2003
Developers frequently confront a dilemma that may be characterized by the following: “90 % of the functionality requested by our customer is available in an existing off-the-shelf application, but the missing 10 % is vital to the customer. Unfortunately, we cannot customize or adapt the existing application to meet our customer’s needs—we have no choice but to buid a custom solution from scratch.”