Parallel changes in large-scale software development: An observational case study

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 308-337

  Perry, Dewayne E ^a,b   Siy, Harvey P ^c   Votta, Lawrence G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

D.2.7 Software Engineering : Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement Version control; D.2.8 Software Engineering : Metrics Process metrics; D.2.9 Software Engineering : Management Programming teams; Software configuration management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012957822     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/383876.383878     Document Type: Article

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