Soup or art? The role of evidential force in empirical software engineering

IEEE Software

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-73

  Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION USE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TANGIBLE EVIDENCE; TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 19144364399     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2005.19     Document Type: Article

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