Supporting software release planning decisions for evolving systems

Proceedings of the 2005 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 14-24

  Saliu, Omolade ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision Support; Effort Estimation; Release Planning; ReleasePlanner ; Risk; Software Evolution

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EFFORT ESTIMATION; RELEASE PLANNING; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33646911473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEW.2005.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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