A low-overhead method for software process appraisal

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-349

  Wilkie, F G ^a   Mc Caffery, F ^b   McFall, D ^a   Lester, Neil ^a   Wilkinson, Emmanuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

CMMI ; Light weight appraisal; On line self appraisal; SME; Software engineering practices

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LIGHT-WEIGHT APPRAISAL; ON-LINE SELF-APPRAISAL; SMALL-TO-MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PROCESS APPRAISAL; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 34547949093     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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