An empirical analysis of the impact of software development problem factors on software maintainability

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• Publication year

  2009

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  Journal of Systems and Software

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2008.12.036
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