Comparison of method chunks and method fragments for situational method engineering

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 479-488

  Henderson Sellers, Brian ^a   Gonzalez Perez, Cesar ^b   Ralyté, Jolita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

AUSTRALIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ISO/IEC; META MODELLING; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 50249096712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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