Measuring where it matters: Determining starting points for metrics collection

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 603-615

  Schalken, Joost ^a   van Vliet, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emperical software engineering; Postmortem analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPERICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PROJECT POST-MORTEM; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE ORGANISATION;

METRIC SYSTEM;

EID: 40749130771     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.07.041     Document Type: Article

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