Comparison between SLOCs and number of files as size metrics for software evolution analysis

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 206-213

  Herraiz, Israel ^a   Robles, Gregorio ^a   González Barahona, Jesús M ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^b   Ramil, Juan F ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Libre software; Metrics; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING;

BASE METRIC; EUROPEAN; EVOLUTION (CO); LARGE SAMPLE; LINES OF CODE (LOC); METRICS (CO); OPEN SOURCES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 46149110328     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2006.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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