Developing software evolution estimation methods for software industry

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, as part of the 24th IASTED International Multi-Conference on APPLIED INFORMATICS

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 323-328

  Koskinen, Jussi ^a   Ahonen, Jarmo J ^b   Tilus, Tero ^a   Sivula, Henna ^a   Kankaanpää, Irja ^a   Lintinen, Heikki ^a   Juutilainen, Päivi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Benefit estimation; Empirical software engineering; Method development; Software evolution; Software maintenance; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BENEFIT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; METHOD DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34047108217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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