Business rule evolution and measures of business rule evolution

International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 121-125

  Lin, L ^a   Embury, S ^a   Warboys, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer industry; Computer science; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial economics; Software design; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software systems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 25844506610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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