Methods of measuring software reuse for the prediction of maintenance effort

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 309-320

  Leach, Ronald J ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration management; COTS; Reuse categories; Reuse factors; Software metrics; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL COMPUTERS; UNIX;

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; REUSE CATEGORIES; REUSE FACTORS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE REUSE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030234361     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199609)8:5<309::aid-smr136>3.0.co;2-g     Document Type: Article

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