The evolution of ANT build systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 42-51

  McIntosh, Shane ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; MAINTENANCE OVERHEAD; OPEN SOURCES; PROJECT MANAGERS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOURCE CODES; STATIC SOURCES; SYSTEM MAINTENANCE; SYSTEM SPECIFICATION;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77953780089     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2010.5463341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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