An empirical study of factors and their relationships in outsourced software maintenance

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 301-308

  Bhatt, Pankaj ^a   Shroff, Gautam ^a   Williams, K ^a   Misra, Arun K ^b  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

^b MOTILAL NEHRU NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (001) PARAMETER; ASIA PACIFIC; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IT OUTSOURCING; IT SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES; MAINTENANCE PHASE; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS;

COST REDUCTION; COSTS; FINANCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE; OUTSOURCING; PROFITABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 46149112170     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2006.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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