Has twenty-five years of empirical software engineering made a difference?

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 539-546

  Jeffery, R ^a   Scott, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Computer industry; Computer science; Computer science education; Costs; Educational products; Educational programs; Inspection; Software engineering; Software measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INSPECTION;

AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS; EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2942535501     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2002.1183076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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