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IS maintainability: should it reduce the maintenance effort?

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Pages: 164 - 173

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-063-5

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E. Burton Swanson

The Anderson School at UCLA, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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