Software Quality and the Capability Maturity Model

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 30-40

  Herbsleb, James ^a   Zubrow, David ^b   Goldenson, Dennis ^b   Hayes, Will ^b   Paulk, Mark ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SURVEYS;

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL (CMM); SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS (SPI);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031166786     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/255656.255692     Document Type: Article

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