CASE Productivity Perceptions of Software Engineering Professionals

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1989, Pages 1102-1108

  Norman, Ronald J ^a   Nunamaker, Jay F ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--PRODUCTIVITY;

CASE; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0024734505     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/66451.66458     Document Type: Article

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