Code convention adherence in evolving software

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 504-507

  Smit, Michael ^a   Gergel, Barry ^a   Hoover, H James ^a   Stroulia, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE CONVENTIONS; CODE DESIGNS; CODE READABILITY; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MAINTAINABILITY;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 83455200846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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