Towards understanding the relationship between team climate and software quality-a quasi-experimental study

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 401-434

  Acuña, Silvia T ^a   Gómez, Marta ^b   Juristo, Natalia ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Software quality; Team climate; Work climate perceptions; Work climate preferences; Work climate preferences perceptions fit

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS;

SOFTWARE QUALITY; TEAM CLIMATE; WORK CLIMATE PERCEPTIONS; WORK CLIMATE PREFERENCES; WORK CLIMATE PREFERENCES-PERCEPTIONS FIT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 55049096702     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9074-8     Document Type: Article

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