Towards a theoretical model for software growth

Proceedings - ICSE 2007 Workshops: Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Herraiz, Israel ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Robles, Gregorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

COMPLEXITY METRICS; SOFTWARE GROWTH; SOURCE CODE; SOURCE CODE FILES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548759097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2007.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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