Assessing software product maintainability based on class-level structural measures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4034 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 94-111

  Benestad, Hans Christian ^a   Anda, Bente ^a   Arisholm, Erik ^a  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CLASS-LEVEL STRUCTURAL MEASURES; PREDICTION MODELS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT MAINTAINABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746256486     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11767718_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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