Bad smells - Humans as code critics

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 399-408

  Mäntylä, Mika V ^a   Vanhanen, Jari ^a   Lassenius, Casper ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

BAD CODE SMELLS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18044364595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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