Reflections on conducting an international survey of software engineering

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 214-223

  Conradi, Reidar ^a,b   Li, Jingyue ^a   Slyngstad, Odd Petter N ^a   Kampenes, Vigdis By ^b   Bunse, Christian ^c   Morisio, Maurizio ^d   Torchiano, Marco ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^c FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Component based software engineering; COTS OSS components; ICT industry; Open source software; Surveys

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELF (COTS); COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CBSE); MANAGEMENT POLICIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749050997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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