Guidelines on the use of fit tables in software maintenance tasks: Lessons learned from 8 experiments

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 317-326

  Ricca, Filippo ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Torchiano, Marco ^c  

^a Unit CINI at DISI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change requirements; Controlled experiments; Fit acceptance test; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MAINTENANCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TESTING;

CHANGE REQUIREMENTS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; EXECUTABLE ACCEPTANCE TESTS; FIT ACCEPTANCE TEST; LESSONS LEARNED; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES; MAINTENANCE TASKS; PROJECT MANAGERS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCES; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 57849129476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2008.4658080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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