Cultivation and engineering of a software metrics program

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-19

  Iversen, Jakob ^a   Mathiassen, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metrics; Software development; Software management; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION USE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0141507080     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2003.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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