Software complexity and maintenance costs

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 81-94

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Datar, Srikant M ^b   Kemerer, Chris F ^c   Zweig, Dani ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Productivity; software complexity; software economics; software maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976765356     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/163359.163375     Document Type: Article

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