Software development productivity of european space, military, and industrial applications

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 706-718

  Maxwell, Katrina D ^a   Van Wassenhove, Luk ^b   Dutta, Soumitra ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

And industrial software projects; Empirical study of software projects; European software projects; Military; Software effort estimation; Software productivity; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000786473     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.544349     Document Type: Article

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