Documenting design decision rationale to improve individual and team design decision making: An experimental evaluation

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 134-143

  Falessi, Davide ^a   Cantone, Giovanni ^a   Becker, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design decision rationale; Experimental evaluation; Individual and team decision making

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DESIGN DECISION RATIONALE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING; TEAM DECISION MAKING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 34247479552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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