Standardized code quality benchmarking for improving software maintainability

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 287-307

  Baggen, Robert ^a   Correia, José Pedro ^b   Schill, Katrin ^a   Visser, Joost ^b  

^a LIWACOM Informationstechnik GmbH   (Germany)

^b Software Improvement Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Certification; Software product quality; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860465895     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-011-9144-9     Document Type: Article

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