Distributed versus face-to-face meetings for architecture evaluation: A controlled experiment

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 252-261

  Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a,b   Kitchenham, Barbara ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Architecture evaluation; Controlled experiments; Groupware support; Process improvement; Scneario development

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; GROUPWARE SUPPORTS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SCNEARIO DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GROUPWARE; PROCESS PLANNING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STUDENTS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 34247366831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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