Revisiting measurement of software complexity

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 35-43

  Wohlin, C ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

COMPLEXITY MEASURES; FAILURE REPORTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77951456152     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.1996.566738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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