A feedback based quality assessment to support open source software evolution: The GRASS case study

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 155-164

  Bouktif, Salah ^a   Antoniol, Giuliano ^a   Merlo, Ettore ^a   Neteler, Markus ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS ANALYSIS; GRASS CASE STUDY; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; FEEDBACK CONTROL; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547305805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2006.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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