Representing the behaviour of software projects using multi-dimensional timelines

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1217-1228

  Rainer, Austen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Multi dimensional timeline; Qualitative data; Quantitative data; Software project; Time series

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TIMELINE; QUALITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TIME SERIES;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77956414086     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.06.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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