Instrument for assessing software measurement programs

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 183-200

  Berry, Michael ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EMPIRICAL DATA; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE METRIC;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034315093     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026534430984     Document Type: Article

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