Investigating large software system evolution: The Linux kernel

Proceedings-IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 421-426

  Merlo, E ^b   Dagenais, M ^b   Bachand, P ^b   Sormani, J S ^b   Gradara, S ^a   Antoniol, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone analysis; Project management; Software evolution; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CLONE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE LINUX;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036391953     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1045038     Document Type: Article

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