The confidence of agile assessment methods in the context of software process improvement

Proceedings - 2011 Agile Conference, Agile 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-138

  Santana, Célio ^a   Gusmão, Cristine ^b   Caetano, Danilo ^b   Vasconcelos, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agile assessment methods; Agile processes; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

AGILE PROCESS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ASSESSMENT METHODS; COMPARATIVE TESTS; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 80053023524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AGILE.2011.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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