The economics of software quality assurance: A simulation-based case study

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 395-410

  Abdel Hamid, Tarek K ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Software cost; Software project management; Software quality assurance; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249089799     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249206     Document Type: Article

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