Reliability factors in business software: Volatility, requirements and end-users

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 185-213

  Bowen, Paul L ^a   Heales, Jon ^a   Vongphakdi, Monthira T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

End user involvement; Information system volatility; Software reliability; Systems requirements

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RADAR TRACKING; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0038380244     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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