Good/fast/cheap: Contexts, relationships and professional responsibility during software development

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 261-266

  Wolf, M J ^a   Grodzinsky, F S ^b  

^a BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Professional responsibility; Software development tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TRADEOFFS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33751047418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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