An experiment on subjective evolvability evaluation of object-oriented software: Explaining factors and interrater agreement

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 287-296

  Mäntylä, Mika V ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BUILDING TOOLS; DEMOGRAPHICS; REFACTORING DECISION; SOFTWARE EVOLVABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749058711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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