Measuring Software Engineering Evolution: A Rasch Calibration

Information Systems Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-104

  Dekleva, Sasa ^a   Drehmer, David ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement and Scaling; Rasch Model; Risks; Software Process Evolution; Software Process Maturity; Software Productivity; Software Quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; RASCH MODELING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTITUTES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0031526151     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.8.1.95     Document Type: Article

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