Predicting risk of software changes

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-180

  Mockus, Audris ^a   Weiss, David M ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOFTWARE UPDATE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034172234     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.2229     Document Type: Article

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