An empirical study of variations in COTS-based software development processes in the Norwegian IT industry

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 433-461

  Li, Jingyue ^a   Bjørnson, Finn Olav ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^a,b   Kampenes, Vigdis B ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Component based development; COTS based development; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LIFE CYCLE; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT; COTS-BASED DEVELOPMENT; CUSTOMIZATION; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746053504     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-006-9005-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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