Towards individualized software engineering: Empirical studies should collect psychometrics

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-52

  Feldt, Robert ^a   Torkar, Richard ^a   Angelis, Lefteris ^b   Samuelsson, Maria ^c  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

empirical research; personality; psychometrics; software engineering

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HUMAN FACTORS; PSYCHOMETRIC DATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953555649     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370114.1370127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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