Measuring software functional size: Towards an effective measurement of complexity

Conference on Software Maintenance

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 370-376

  Tran Cao, De ^a   Levesque, Ghislain ^a   Abran, Alain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION THEORY;

DATA MANIPULATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036437796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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