Performance lies my professor told me: The case for teaching software performance engineering to undergraduates

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 37-48

  Dugan Jr , Robert F ^a  

^a STONEHILL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Performance; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; INTERNET; MARKOV PROCESSES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION DEGREES; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING (SPE);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 3543118986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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