My Hairiest Bug War Stories

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 30-37

  Eisenstadt, Marc ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; PERSONNEL; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

DATA GATHERING; PROGRAMMERS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 0031117798     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/248448.248456     Document Type: Article

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