Beyond source code: The importance of other artifacts in software development (a case study)

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1233-1248

  Robles, Gregorio ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Merelo, Juan Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mining software repositories; Source code analysis; Source code management systems

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; USER INTERFACES;

MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33748146039     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.02.048     Document Type: Article

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