Experimental validation in software engineering

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 735-743

  Zelkowitz, Marvin V ^a,b   Wallace, Dolores ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Evaluation; Experimentation; Measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA ACQUISITION;

DATA COLLECTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031337731     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(97)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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