A case study on the impact of refactoring on quality and productivity in an agile team

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5082 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 252-266

  Moser, Raimund ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^b   Pedrycz, Witold ^c   Sillitti, Alberto ^a   Succi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Methodologies; Refactoring; Software metrics; Software process

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TRANSIENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

METHODOLOGIES; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; METHODOLOGIES; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

EID: 50949085401     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85279-7_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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