Continuous software process improvement through statistical process control

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 288-293

  Caivano, Danilo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b RCOST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES; PREDICTABILITY; PROCESS MONITORING; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; PERFORMANCE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 26844544434     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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