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How Accurately Do Engineers Predict Software Maintenance Tasks?
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.58February 2007 (vol. 40 no. 2) pp. 64-69
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Les Hatton, "How Accurately Do Engineers Predict Software Maintenance Tasks?," Computer, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 64-69, February, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MC.2007.58,
author = {Les Hatton},
title = {How Accurately Do Engineers Predict Software Maintenance Tasks?},
journal ={Computer},
volume = {40},
number = {2},
issn = {0018-9162},
year = {2007},
pages = {64-69},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.58},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Les Hatton, Kingston University London
Previous research shows considerable overlap among perfective, corrective, and adaptive maintenance tasks in software development projects. A case study involving two recent products provides further empirical evidence of this distribution and sheds light on how well programmers estimate both the type of maintenance necessary and the duration with some significant surprises.
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software development
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Les Hatton, "How Accurately Do Engineers Predict Software Maintenance Tasks?," Computer, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 64-69, Feb. 2007, doi:10.1109/MC.2007.58
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