Software maintenance seen as a knowledge management issue

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 515-529

  Anquetil, Nicolas ^a   de Oliveira, Káthia M ^a   de Sousa, Kleiber D ^a   Batista Dias, Márcio G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

^b University Center of Goiás Uni Anhangüera   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Ontology; Post mortem analysis; Post partum analysis; Project revision; Software evolution; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

POST MORTEM ANALYSIS; POST PARTUM ANALYSIS; PROJECT REVISION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33847735049     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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