How documentation evolves over time

9th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, IWPSE 2007, Held in Conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE Joint Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4-10

  Schreck, Daniel ^a   Dallmeier, Valentin ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH UPDATE; CORE COMPONENTS; JAVA CLASS LIBRARY; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOURCE CODES;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77950545513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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