Outsourced, offshored software-testing practice: Vendor-side experiences

Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-140

  Shah, Hina ^a   Sinha, Saurabh ^b   Harrold, Mary Jean ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Ethnography; field study; human factors; qualitative study; software testing

Indexed keywords

DEADLINE PRESSURES; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHY; FIELD STUDIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; QUALITATIVE STUDY; TEST ENGINEERS;

ENGINEERING; ENGINEERS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 81255143791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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