A system dynamics simulation model to find the effects of XP on cost of change curve

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2675, Issue , 2003, Pages 54-62

  Kuppuswami, S ^a   Vivekanandan, K ^b   Rodrigues, Paul ^c  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^c Nature Soft   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM THEORY;

CHANGE CURVES; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; SIMULATION MODEL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 35248847813     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44870-5_8     Document Type: Article

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