Investigating the extreme programming system - An empirical study

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 269-301

  Sfetsos, Panagiotis ^a   Angelis, Lefteris ^b,c   Stamelos, Ioannis ^b,d  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Department of Informatics ^*  (Greece)

^d IEEE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Cause effect model; Developer perception; Empirical study; Extreme programming system; Feedback model; Manager perception; Pair programming; Planning game; Refactoring; Simple design; Stepwise discriminant analysis; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; CAUSE-EFFECT MODEL; EXTREME PROGRAMMING SYSTEM; FEEDBACK MODEL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33644883897     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-006-6404-6     Document Type: Article

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