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Using version control data to evaluate the impact of software tools

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David Atkins,

Thomas Ball,

Todd Graves,

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ICSE '99: Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering

Pages 324 - 333

https://doi.org/10.1145/302405.302649

Published: 16 May 1999 Publication History

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