A case study of defect introduction mechanisms

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

Volumn 5565 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 156-170

  Ghazarian, Arbi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case Study; Defect Root Cause Analysis; Defects Sources

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; DEFECT ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; IN-LINE; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; PROJECT BUDGET; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

DEFECTS;

EID: 69849106701     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02144-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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