Users as contextual features of software product development and testing

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 301-310

  Martin, David ^a   Rooksby, John ^b   Rouncefield, Mark ^b  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Extreme Programming; Software Product

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; GROUP WORK; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; TECHNICAL DECISION; TECHNICAL WORK; USER FEATURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 63949085558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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