Empirical support for two refactoring studies using commercial C# software

13th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gatrell, M ^a   Counsell, S ^a   Hall, T ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

CONTINUOUS INTEGRATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES; OPEN SOURCES; PAPER DOCUMENTS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE CHANGE; SOURCE CONTROL;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 85088067464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/ease2009.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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