Assessing component-based systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2693, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-20

  Cechich, Alejandra ^a   Piattini, Mario ^b   Vallecillo, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BEST PRACTICES; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; COMPONENT BASED SYSTEMS; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS; COTS COMPONENT; CURRENT COMPONENT; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

SOFTWARE QUALITY;

EID: 21144451628     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45064-1_1     Document Type: Article

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