Measuring unmeasurable attributes of software quality using pragmatic quality factor

Proceedings - 2010 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 197-202

  Yahaya, Jamaiah Haji ^a   Deraman, Aziz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Pragmatic quality factor; Software measurement; Software quality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; HUMAN ASPECTS; MALAYSIA; PERSPECTIVE APPROACH; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY FACTORS; QUALITY MODELS; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; STATIC MEASUREMENTS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77958563343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCSIT.2010.5564077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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