An industrial study on the importance of software component documentation: A system integrator-s perspective

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 583-590

  Mahmood, Sajjad ^a   Khan, Azhar ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Component based systems; Component documentation; Integration; Software components; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED SYSTEMS; COMPONENT DOCUMENTATION; COMPONENT INTEGRATION; COMPONENT INTERFACES; CURRENT PERCEPTION; EFFORT ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL SURVEYS; INTEGRATION PHASE; INTEGRATION PROCESS; POTENTIAL RISKS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SUCCESS FACTORS; SYSTEM INTEGRATORS; TESTING PROCESS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; RISK PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 79953168746     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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