Software quality evaluation based on expert judgement

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-55

  Rosqvist, Tony ^a   Koskela, Mika ^a   Harju, Hannu ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Expert judgement; Software measurement; Software quality

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOTIVATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERT JUDGEMENT; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE VERSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 3543117256     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023741528816     Document Type: Article

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