Using software trails to reconstruct the evolution of software

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 367-384

  German, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case study; Evolution; Historical data; Large software systems; Open source software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; WEBSITES;

CASE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HISTORICAL DATA; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 10644256720     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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