A family of experiments to validate metrics for software process models

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-129

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   García, Félix ^b   Piattini, Mario ^b   Ruiz, Francisco ^b   Visaggio, Corrado Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Experimental software engineering; Metrics; Software process models maintainability

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; METRICS; PROCESS MODELING; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELS MAINTAINABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 18144415854     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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