A family of empirical studies to compare informal and optimization-based planning of software releases

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 212-221

  Du, Gengshen ^a   McElroy, Jim ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision support; Family of empirical studies; Release planning

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; RELEASE PLANNING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS PLANNING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247367235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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