Questioning software maintenance metrics: A comparative case study

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 107-110

  Sjøberg, Dag I K ^a   Anda, Bente ^a   Mockus, Audris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Software maintenance; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; ENTIRE SYSTEM; EQUIVALENT SYSTEM; MAINTENANCE TASKS; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL MEASURES; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEM SIZE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 84867507242     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2372251.2372269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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