Applying GQM in an Industrial Software Factory

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 411-448

  Fuggetta, Alfonso ^a   Lavazza, Luigi ^a   Morasca, Sandro ^a   Cinti, Stefano ^b   Oldano, Giandomenico ^b   Orazi, Elena ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Digital Equipment SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

D.2.2 Software Engineering : Tools and Techniques computer aided software engineering (CASE); D.2.8 Software Engineering : Metrics performance measures; D.2.9 Software Engineering : Management productivity; software quality assurance (SQA)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

GOAL/QUESTION/METRIC (GQM) PARADIGM;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032182972     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/292182.292197     Document Type: Article

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