Factors influencing industrial practices of software architecture evaluation: An empirical investigation

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

Volumn 4880 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 90-107

  Ali Babar, Muhammad ^a   Bass, Len ^b   Gorton, Ian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PAPER COATING;

APPLICATIONS.; ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; BEST PRACTICES; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION METHODS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 49949110980     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77619-2_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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