Organizational volatility and its effects on software defects

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 117-126

  Mockus, Audris ^a  

^a AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

organizational volatility; software defects

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; EFFICIENT PRODUCTION; FAULT-PRONENESS; HIGH-QUALITY SOFTWARE; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL VOLATILITY; PRODUCT QUALITY; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

DEFECTS; MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 78751478793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882291.1882311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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