Tool support for geographically dispersed inspection teams

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 217-231

  Lanubile, Filippo ^a   Mallardo, Teresa ^a   Calefato, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed teams; Empirical study; Software inspection; Tool support

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INSPECTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; TOOL SUPPORT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 14344251811     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.184     Document Type: Article

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