Impacts of the organizational model on testing: Three industrial cases

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 275-296

  Ahonen, Jarmo J ^a,b   Junttila, Tuukka ^a   Sakkinen, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b SEINÄJOKI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Organizational model; Process assessment; Software engineering; Software process; Software testing; TIM

Indexed keywords

ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL; PROCESS ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TIM;

COST ACCOUNTING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DEFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4444233290     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMSE.0000039880.99096.af     Document Type: Article

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