Reuse and productivity in integrated computer-aided software engineering: An empirical study

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 375-398

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Kauffman, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CASE; ICASE; Productivity measurement; Reuse; Software development; Software economics; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349163770     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249649     Document Type: Article

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