The impact of complexity on software design quality and costs: An exploratory empirical analysis of open source applications

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Merlo, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Costs and quality; Open source software complexity

Indexed keywords

COST MODELS; CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY METRIC; DESIGN QUALITY; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; MAINTENANCE COST; OPEN SOURCE APPLICATION; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN QUALITY;

COSTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870648497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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