Does distributed development affect software quality?: An empirical case study of Windows Vista

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 85-93

  Bird, Christian ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a   Gall, Harald ^c   Murphy, Brendan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TEST CODE; WINDOWS VISTA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WINDOWS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 69149091339     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536639     Document Type: Article

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