Situated software development: Work practice and infrastructure are mutually constitutive

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 160-169

  Prior, Julia ^a   Robertson, Toni ^a   Leaney, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES; FORMAL DEFINITIONS; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE; RATIONAL MODELS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; WORK PRACTICES;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 50249126582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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