A tale of four kernels

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 381-390

  Spinellis, Diomidis ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Measurement

Indexed keywords

CODE STRUCTURES; DATA ORGANIZATIONS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; FREEBSD; GNU/LINUX; INTERNAL QUALITIES; MEASUREMENT; NON-TRIVIAL; PRE PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOLARIS; SOURCE CODES; WINDOWS - OPERATING SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CODE STRUCTURE; DATA ORGANIZATION; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; FREEBSD; GNU/LINUX; INTERNAL QUALITY; PREPROCESSOR; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOLARIS; SOURCE CODES;

EID: 57349153070     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368088.1368140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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