Is “Maintainability”: Should It Reduce the Maintenance Effort?

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-76

  Burton Swanson, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

IS maintainability; IS maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748889532     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/342251.342267     Document Type: Article

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