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Evaluating the cost of software quality

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 41 , Issue 8 (August 1998) table of contents

Pages: 67 - 73

Year of Publication: 1998

ISSN:0001-0782

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Sandra A. Slaughter	Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Donald E. Harter	Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Mayuram S. Krishnan	Univ. of Michigan

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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