Why Are CASE Tools Not Used?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 94-103

  Iivari, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030258673     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/236156.236183     Document Type: Article

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