Evaluating the usefulness and ease of use of a groupware tool for the software architecture evaluation process

Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 430-439

  Ali Babar, Muhamad ^a   Winkler, Dietmar ^b   Biffl, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GROUPWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; COLLABORATIVE TASKS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTED MEETINGS; EASE-OF-USE; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; TOOL SUPPORTS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 47949100326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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