Alignment within the software development unit: Assessing structural and relational dimensions between developers and testers

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 323-342

  Dhaliwal, Jasbir ^a   Onita, Colin Gabriel ^a   Poston, Robin ^a   Zhang, Xihui Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment within the IT unit; Developers and testers; IT subunits; Software development; Structural and relational dimensions; Survey research

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT; DEVELOPERS AND TESTERS; IT ORGANIZATIONS; IT SUBUNITS; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE; RESEARCH MODELS; STRATEGIC VALUES; STRUCTURAL AND RELATIONAL DIMENSIONS; STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS; SUB-GROUPS; SURVEY RESEARCH;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SURVEYS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 82955198474     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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