Perceptions of selected Malaysian information systems practitioners towards software prototyping: An exploratory study

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 14-28

  Selamat, Mohd Hasan ^a   Rahim, Md Mahbubur ^b   Mohammad Noor, Noor Maizura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b FACULTY OF ENGINEERING   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Information systems practitioners; Software prototyping; System development life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042308829     PISSN: 01279084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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