Experimental investigation of the impact of individual, program, and organizational characteristics on software maintenance effort

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-157

  Ramanujan, Sam ^a   Scamell, Richard W ^b   Shah, Jaymeen R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^b 280J Melcher Hall   (United States)

^c PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; LIFE CYCLE;

CONTROL FLOW COMPLEXITY; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034299718     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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