Assessing Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-328

  Ambriola, Vincenzo ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^b   Fuggetta, Alfonso ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

D.2.6 Software Engineering : Programming Environments; K.6.3 Management of Computing and Information Systems : Software Management software development; software maintenance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS;

PROCESS CENTERED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS (PSEE);

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031186803     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/258077.258080     Document Type: Article

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