Systematic literature review in open source software maintainability

International Review on Computers and Software

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2200-2205

  Sultan, Abu Bakar Md ^a   Bakar, Abubakar Diwani ^a   Zulzalil, Hazura ^a   Din, Jamilah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Common coupling; Maintainability index; Open source software

Indexed keywords

COMMON COUPLING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RANDOM SEARCHES; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 84873300381     PISSN: 18286003     EISSN: 18286011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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