Structural Analysis of Open Source Systems

Software Evolution and Feedback: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 207-222

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Morisio, Maurizio ^a   Fernáandez Ramil, Juan C ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

25 OSS systems evolution; Automatic data extraction in systems' evolution analysis; Code structure evolution; Code structure evolution in OSS; Global and structure level, components level and subcomponent level; Multiple levels of granularity; Open Source Software (OSS) systems; OSS evolution studies; Structural analysis of open source systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949086045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470871822.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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