An empirical study of groupware support for distributed software architecture evaluation process

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 912-925

  Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a   Kitchenham, Barbara ^a   Zhu, Liming ^a   Gorton, Ian ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed software development; Empirical software engineering; Groupware systems; Software architecture evaluation; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GROUPWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 33646804910     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.06.043     Document Type: Article

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