A Case Study of Software Process Improvement During Development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1157-1170

  Bhandari, Inderpal ^a   Halliday, Michael ^a   Chaar, Jarir ^a   Chillarege, Ram ^a   Tarver, Eric ^b   Brown, David ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Date exploration; defect based process improvement; in process metrics; knowledge discovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

CAUSAL ANALYSIS; DATE EXPLORATION; DEFECT BASED PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; IN PROCESS METRICS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTITUTE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LABORATORY; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0027887692     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.249661     Document Type: Article

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