Exploring the relationship between cumulative change and complexity in an Open Source system

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 21-29

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a,b   Faria, Alvaro E ^b   Ramil, Juan F ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclomatic Complexity; Maintenance; Metrics; Open Source; Refactoring; Software Evolution

Indexed keywords

CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY; OPEN SOURCE; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION METHODS; METRIC SYSTEM; REENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 26844433213     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2005.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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