Design reasoning improves software design quality

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5281 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 28-42

  Tang, Antony ^a   Tran, Minh H ^a   Han, Jun ^a   Van Vliet, Hans ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design Reasoning; Software Architecture Design; Usability

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE QUALITY; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN REASONINGS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; SOFTWARE DESIGN QUALITY; USABILITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 63049132701     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87879-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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