Metrics in the development and maintenance of software: An application in a large scale environment

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 343-355

  Fasolino, Anna Rita ^a,d   Natale, Domenico ^b,e,f   Poli, Alessio ^c   Quaranta, Alessandro Alberigi ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SOGEI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^e Finsiel Group   (Italy)

^f Working Grp 6 Software Prod Eval

^g IEEE

Author keywords

Development costs; Maintenance costs; Software metrics; Software quality

Indexed keywords

COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0346046806     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-908x(200011/12)12:6<343::aid-smr218>3.0.co;2-0     Document Type: Article

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