What's up with software metrics? - A preliminary mapping study

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-51

  Kitchenham, Barbara ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical evaluation problems; Influential papers; Literature survey; Mapping study; Secondary study; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

CITED PAPERS; CURRENT STATUS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATION PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; EVALUATION STUDY; JOURNAL PAPER; LITERATURE SURVEY; RESEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH FACILITIES; SOFTWARE METRICS;

MAPPING; RESEARCH; SURVEYS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 71949127456     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.06.041     Document Type: Article

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