A metrics-guided framework for cost and quality management of component-based software

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

Volumn 2693, Issue , 2003, Pages 374-402

  Sedigh Ali, Sahra ^a   Ghafoor, Arif ^a   Paul, Raymond A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE; COMPONENT BASED SYSTEMS; DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES; LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS; PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS; THIRD-PARTY DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 27544453433     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45064-1_17     Document Type: Article

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