Maintaining Linux: The role of "current"

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 44-52

  Yu, Liguo ^a   Schach, Stephen R ^b   Chen, Kai ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MAINTAINABILITY;

DEFINITION USE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL VARIABLE CURRENTS; GRAPHICAL NOTATION; LINUX;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749051411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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