Quality-driven software re-engineering

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-239

  Tahvildari, Ladan ^a   Kontogiannis, Kostas ^a   Mylopoulos, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design patterns; Non functional requirements; Soft goal interdependency graphs; Software architecture; Software metrics; Software quality; Software re engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEGACY SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

SOFT-GOAL INTERDEPENDENCY GRAPHS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038182794     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00082-1     Document Type: Article

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