Evolution of understandability in OSS projects

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

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 58-66

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Morisio, Maurizio ^a   Lago, Patricia ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

APPLICATION DOMAINS; GNU; LINUX KERNELS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 3042858555     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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