Experience using web-based shotgun measures for large-system characterization and improvement

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 268-277

  McLellan, Sam ^a   Roesler, Al ^a   Fei, Zongming ^a   Chandran, Savita ^a   Spinuzzi, Clay ^a  

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Author keywords

Characterization; Goal question metric paradigm; Implementation experience; Improvement paradigm; Multidimensional view of measurement; Practical view of measurement; Process improvement; Software metrics, shotgun measures; Software mining; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010399727     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.677184     Document Type: Article

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