Influence of human factors in software quality and productivity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6786 LNCS, Issue PART 5, 2011, Pages 257-269

  Fernández Sanz, Luis ^a   Misra, Sanjay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

human factors; software productivity; software quality

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; EMPIRICAL DATA; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79960315418     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21934-4_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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