Rules and Tools for Software Evolution Planning and Management

Annals of Software Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-44

  Lehman, Meir M ^a   Ramil, Juan F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assumptions; E type software; FEAST; Feedback; Laws of software evolution; Process improvement; Rules for process planning and management; Software evolution; Software management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035561643     PISSN: 10227091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012535017876     Document Type: Article

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