Studying the evolution of open source systems at different levels of granularity: Two case studies

International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 113-118

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a,b   Ramil, Juan F ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FILE ORGANIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WEB BROWSERS;

ANTI-REGRESSIVE WORK; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS (OSS); SOURCE CODES; SOURCE TREE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244267035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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