Research on Structured Programming: An Empiricist's Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-10, Issue 4, 1984, Pages 397-407

  Vessey, Iris ^a   Weber, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design; experimentation; human factors; Index Terms; languages; performance

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FACTORS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0021453185     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1984.5010252     Document Type: Article

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