Development of a Measure to Assess the Quality of User- Developed Applications

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 44-58

  Rivard, Suzanne ^a   Poirier, Guylaine ^b   Raymond, Louis ^c   Bergeron, François ^d  

^a Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales   (France)

^b Quebec Ministry of Justice   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

end user computing; quality measurement; System quality; user development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041990699     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/272657.272690     Document Type: Article

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