An empirical approach to studying software evolution

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 493-509

  Kemerer, Chris F ^a   Slaughter, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EMPIRICAL METHODS; FLEXIBLE PHASE MAPPING; GAMMA SEQUENCE ANALYTIC METHODS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033163707     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.799945     Document Type: Article

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