An investigation of software development productivity in China

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

Volumn 5007 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 381-394

  He, Mei ^a,b   Li, Mingshu ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Ye, Kai ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese software industry; Empirical analysis; Globalization of software development; Software process improvement; Software productivity

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRY; PAPER COATING; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CHINESE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; DATA SETS; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS (DMP); DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; HEIDELBERG (CO); IN HOUSE DEVELOPMENTS; INDUSTRY PROJECTS; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PROJECT SIZE; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY; SPRINGER (CO); TEAM SIZE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 44649199827     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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