Incorporating discount usability in extreme programming

International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-62

  Sohaib, Osama ^a   Khan, Khalid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN   (Pakistan)

^b KARACHI INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Extreme programming (XP); Usability Engineering; User centered design (UCD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859154789     PISSN: 17389984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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