Assessing the maintainability of software product line feature models using structural metrics

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 579-612

  Bagheri, Ebrahim ^a,b   Gasevic, Dragan ^a  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Controlled experimentation; Feature model; Maintainability; Quality attributes; Software prediction model; Software product line; Structural complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958248566     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-010-9127-2     Document Type: Article

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