Risks and risk management in software architecture evolution: an industrial survey

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Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-108

  Slyngstad, Odd Petter N ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^a   Babar, M Ali ^b   Clerc, Viktor ^c   Van Vliet, Hans ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Risk management; Software architecture; Software architecture evaluation; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849112582     PISSN: 14416638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2008.70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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