On the testing maturity of software producing organizations

Proceedings - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques, TAIC PART 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 171-180

  Grindal, Mats ^a   Offutt, Jeff ^b   Mellin, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT LEVELS; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; STATE OF PRACTICE; UPPER MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; PERSONNEL TESTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 70349943447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TAIC-PART.2006.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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