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Models and Measurements for Quality Assessment of Software

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Volume 11 , Issue 3 (September 1979) table of contents

Pages: 251 - 275

Year of Publication: 1979

ISSN:0360-0300

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Siba N. Mohanty

Martin Marietta Laboratories, 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, Maryland

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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