Communication metrics for software development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 615-628

  Dutoit, Allen H ^a   Bruegge, Bernd ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Empirical software engineering; Statistics; Structural equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007976009     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.707697     Document Type: Article

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