The role of software measures and metrics in studies of program comprehension

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, ACM-SE 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Mathias, Karl S ^a   Cross, James H ^a   Hendrix, T Dean ^a   Barowski, Larry A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP; COMPREHENSION PROCESS; KEY ELEMENTS; MIXED MODELS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; ROLE OF SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; TOPDOWN;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33645157056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/306363.306381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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