Demystifying maintainability

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 21-26

  Broy, Manfred ^a   Deissenboeck, Florian ^a   Pizka, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maintainability; Quality assessment; Quality models

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; CONTROLLING PROCESS; INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY MODELS; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 84885571494     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1137702.1137708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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