This is a result from reading the articles found at Literature and selecting useful literature references.

• Manny M. Lehman and Les Belady. Program Evolution – Processes of Software Change. London Academic Press, 1985.
• Rocky Bernstei. Debuggers in dynamic languages. June 2010.
• Martin Fowler. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA, USA, 1999.
• Jerey S. Hammon. IDE Usage Trends. Technical report, Forrester, February 2008.
• M. W. Godfrey and D. M. German. Past, Present, and Future of Software Evolution. In Proceedings of Frontiers of Software Maintenance, ICSM’08, pages 129–138, 2008.
• Norvig, P. (2001). "Extreme rapid development." Software Development 9(3): 29-35
• D. Ancona, M. Ancona, A. Cuni, and N. D. Matsakis. RPython: a step towards reconciling dynamically and statically typed OO languages. In DLS, pages 53–64, Oct. 2007.