Table Oriented Metrics for Relational Databases

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 79-97

  Piattini, Mario ^a,b,c   Calero, Coral ^a   Genero, Marcela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c ISACA ^*  (Cuba)

Author keywords

Databases; Empirical validation; Formal validation; GQM; Metrics; Quality

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; FORMAL VALIDATION; GQM; HIGH-QUALITY SOFTWARE; METRICS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 0002563094     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016670717863     Document Type: Article

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