Case study: productivity and quality gains using an object-oriented framework

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 501-518

  Mamrak, Sandra A ^a   Sinha, Saurabh ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY;

BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH; NEURO ONCOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROCEDURAL DESIGN;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032673888     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199905)29:6<501::AID-SPE240>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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