Cost of software quality: A means of promoting software process improvement

Quality Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 563-573

  Houston, Dan ^a,b   Keats, J Bert ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CoSQ chart; Cost of quality (CoQ); Cost of software quality (CoSQ); Software process improvement; Software process simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 11544302773     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982119808919170     Document Type: Article

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