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Evaluating the cost of software quality

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 41, Issue 8
              Aug. 1998
              105 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/280324
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