A study on agility and testing processes in software organizations

ISSTA'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 231-240

  Kettunen, Vesa ^a   Kasurinen, Jussi ^a   Taipale, Ossi ^a   Smolander, Kari ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile development; Case study; Empirical study; Test process

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE DEVELOPMENT METHODS; AGILE METHODS; CASE STUDY; DEVELOPMENT METHOD; EARLY INVOLVEMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END-PRODUCTS; GROUNDED THEORY; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE PRODUCTION; TEST PROCESS; TESTING PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 77955882218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1831708.1831737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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