An empirical study of variations in COTS-based software development processes in norwegian IT industry

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 72-83

  Li, Jingyue ^a   Bjørnson, Finn Olav ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^a,b   Kampenes, Vigdis By ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) COMPONENTS; DATA FINDINGS; SOFTWARE INTEGRATION; SOFTWARE PROCESSES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MARKETING; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 14844316677     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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