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Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 412 - 421

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-914-9

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Lionel Briand	Fraunhofer IESE, Technologie Park, Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Prem Devanbu	AT&T Labs Research, 600, Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Walcelio Melo	CRIM, 1801 McGill College Ave, Montreal, Canada H3A24

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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