Strong dependencies between software components

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 89-99

  Abate, Pietro ^a   Boender, Jaap ^a   Di Cosmo, Roberto ^a   Zacchiroli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FORMULAE; COMPONENT BASED SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; INTER-COMPONENT DEPENDENCIES; SOFTWARE COMPONENT;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 72449122776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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