Factors affecting software testing time schedule

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 283-291

  Taipale, Ossi ^a   Smolander, Kari ^a,b   Kälviäinen, Heikki ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b South Carelia Polytechnic   (Finland)

Author keywords

Communication; Interaction; Regression analysis; Software process improvement; Software testing

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TIME SHARING PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER TESTING;

EID: 33750094348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2006.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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