A literature survey of the quality economics of defect-detection techniques

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 194-203

  Wagner, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Defect detection techniques; Literature survey; Quality cost; Software quality economics

Indexed keywords

DEFECT DETECTION TECHNIQUES; LITERATURE SURVEY; QUALITY COST; SOFTWARE QUALITY ECONOMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247535023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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