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Evaluating the cost of software quality

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Sandra A. Slaughter,

Donald E. Harter,

Mayuram S. KrishnanAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 41, Issue 8

Pages 67 - 73

https://doi.org/10.1145/280324.280335

Published: 01 August 1998 Publication History

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