Iterative design and testing within the software development life cycle

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-310

  Tsai, Bor Yuan ^a,b   Stobart, Simon ^a   Parrington, Norman ^a   Thompson, Barrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ALETHEIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Design; Iterative and incremental software; Test and software development lifecycle

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INTEGRATION TESTING; LIFE CYCLE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

DESIGN PROCESS; INCREMENTAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ITERATIVE DESIGN; LIFE CYCLE MODEL; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0042854502     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018528506161     Document Type: Article

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