An empirical study of system design instability metric and design evolution in an agile software process

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-274

  Alshayeb, Mohammad ^a   Li, Wei ^b  

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

^b University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

Author keywords

Design evolution in agile software process; Empirical study; Extreme programming; System design instability (SDI) metric

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METRIC SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE SOFTWARE PROCESSES; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM DESIGN INSTABILITY (SDI);

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 8344262370     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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