Estimation and prediction metrics for adaptive maintenance effort of object-oriented systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1062-1084

  Fioravanti, Fabrizio ^a,b   Nesi, Paolo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive maintenance effort; Estimation prediction; Object oriented metrics

Indexed keywords

OBJECT-ORIENTED METRICS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0035673534     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.988708     Document Type: Article

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