Assessing maintainability change over multiple software releases

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-58

  Kozlov, Denis ^a   Koskinen, Jussi ^a   Sakkinen, Markku ^a   Markkula, Jouni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Internal quality attributes; Software complexity; Software maintainability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

INTERNAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 40049095664     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.361     Document Type: Article

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