Dynamic and static views of software evolution

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 592-601

  Cook, Stephen ^a   Ji, He ^a   Harrison, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLVABILITY; GAMMA PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUEUEING THEORY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956611625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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