Prototyping Versus Specifying: A Multiproject Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-10, Issue 3, 1984, Pages 290-303

  Boehm, Barry W ^a   Gray, Terence E ^b   Seewaldt, Thomas ^c  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KAISERSLAUTERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Prototypes requirements analysis; software engineering; software engineering education; software management; software metrics; specifications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0021421787     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1984.5010238     Document Type: Article

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