A framework for supporting the software architecture evaluation process in global software development

Proceedings - 2009 4th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-102

  Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Global software development; Groupware support; Software architecture evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL EVALUATION; EVALUATION PROCESS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUPWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GROUPWARE; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 71049151646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2009.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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