Metrics for assessing a software system's maintainability

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Proceedings Conference on Software Maintenance 1992

• Publication date

  1992-11-09

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/ICSM.1992.242525
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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