Virtual software engineering laboratories in support of trade-off analyses

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 407-428

  Münch, Jürgen ^a   Pfahl, Dietmar ^b   Rus, Ioana ^c,d,e  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Fraunhofer Center Maryland   (United States)

^d Fraunhofer Center for Empirical Software Engineering Maryland   (United States)

^e IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Software engineering laboratories; Software process modeling; Software process simulation; Trade off analyses

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DECISION SUPPORTS; ENGINEERING LABORATORIES; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING; SOFTWARE PROCESS SIMULATION; TRADE-OFF-ANALYSES;

RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

EID: 27844579104     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-005-4253-y     Document Type: Article

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