Cost-effective analysis of in-place software processes

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 650-663

  Cook, Jonathan E ^a   Votta, Lawrence G ^a  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical case study; Process improvement; Process measurement; Process model validation; Retrospective case study; Software process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001394538     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.707700     Document Type: Article

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