SubCM: A tool for improved visibility of software change in an industrial setting

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 675-693

  Völzer, Hagen ^a   MacDonald, Anthony ^c   Atchison, Brenton ^b   Hanlon, Andrew ^b   Lindsay, Peter ^c   Strooper, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b Invensys SCADA Development   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Software configuration management; Software maintenance; Verification and validation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 14044258467     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.67     Document Type: Article

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