An empirical analysis of the impact of software development problem factors on software maintainability

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 981-992

  Chen, Jie Cherng ^a   Huang, Sun Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Software development problem factors; Software maintainability; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED SOFTWARES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; K-MEANS CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PROCESS MANAGEMENTS; PROJECT FAILURES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM FACTORS; SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTERCHANGES; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 64849105935     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.12.036     Document Type: Article

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