Deriving metric thresholds from benchmark data

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Alves, Tiago L ^a,b   Ypma, Christiaan ^a,c   Visser, Joost ^a  

^a Software Improvement Group   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; EXPERT OPINION; MAINTAINABILITY MODELS; MEASUREMENT DATA; METRIC VALUES; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OPEN-SOURCE; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SYSTEM SIZE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAINTAINABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 78650109098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2010.5609747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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