A Controlled Experiment Quantitatively Comparing Software Development Approaches

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-7, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 299-320

  Reiter, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Loral Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled experimentation; empirical study; programming measurement; programming methodology; programming teams; software development; software metrics; structured programming practices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0019561859     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1981.230841     Document Type: Article

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