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Software complexity and maintenance costs
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Volume 36 ,  Issue 11  (November 1993) table of contents
Pages: 81 - 94  
Year of Publication: 1993
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Rajiv D. Banker  Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Srikant M. Datar  Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
Chris F. Kemerer  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Dani Zweig  Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Software engineers have long believed that software complexity and maintenance costs are strongly related. This paper discusses the empirical evidence for the existence and nature of the relationship. It then describes the results of a careful  more...

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